Breaker Boys in the past worked in dangerous mines with machinery which could kill. In the 1800s and early 1900s there was hardly a from of child labour more demoralizing and physically hazardous than working as a coal breaker boy. For ten or eleven hours a day children of ten and eleven years of age stooped over a chute and picked out slate and other impurities from coal as it tumbled down and past them on a conveyor belt.
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