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Being a breaker boy in the late 1800's and early 1900's was a very hard and dangerous job, not to mention the some of the people doing it were only 5 or 6! Breaker boys in coal mines; sorting coal. The dangerous part about the job is when the coal goes down the chutes, its is going towards the workers and causing them to inhale clouds of smoke, coal, and dust.

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Being a breaker boy was not only unsafe, but was filled with many challenged. One challenge was, the boys weren't allowed to wear gloves! As said in the book "Growing Up in Coal Country",
"Their bosses forbade the boys to wear gloves... because they impaired their sense of touch and finger movement." which was a challenge because their fingers were getting red tips; a condition where your fingers are swelled cracked, and bleeding. Another challenge was that the boys were hunched over all day without a backrest on their chair. As said in the book "Growing Up in Coal Country" this wasn't only uncomfortable but caused lifelong back problems. "Since the boys weren't allowed to nail backrests to their seats, their backs ached from sitting in a hunched position all day"

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What tragedies were caused by being a breaker boy?

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What tragedies were caused by being a breaker boy?

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Children were badly injured- fingers chopped off
Covered in Coal and dust
Some children's lives were lost.

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Article relating to the job of a breaker boy

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Article relating to the job of a breaker boy

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https://ehistory.osu.edu/exhibitions/gildedage/content/breakerboys

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Essential Question- How does society respond to challenges?

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Essential Question- How does society respond to challenges?

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Some challenges in the late 1800's and early 1900's were that young children had miserable lives filled with dangerous work adults should have been doing and weren't getting an education. Society responded to those challenges by creating a committee. When the National Labor Committee was formed in 1904, they began doing everything they could to stop child labor.

"Founded in 1904, the National Child Labor Committee set out on a mission of "promoting the rights, awareness, dignity, well-being and education of children and youth as they relate to work and working."
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/nclc/background.html