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Peer reviewedStout, Zoe – Social Studies Journal, 1991
Explores, in a reprint of the 1989 Junior Division National History Day winning paper, the history of some technological developments in Pennsylvania's coal mining industry. Examines the "breaker boys," youths who sorted coal in severe working conditions. Introduces Ellen Webster Palmer, who addressed the problem by organizing the Boys'…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Child Labor, Child Welfare, Coal
