Watt's steam engines helped power the Industrial Revolution and they were ... An engraving showing child labour in a Welsh coal mine. The child on the left is a 'trapper' - they were responsible ...

When the Industrial Revolution hit Britain in the late ... 15 are engaged in mines and quarries. Many of the children involved in current mining end up providing minerals for global supply chains ...

Child labour was the crucial ... their husbands and sons went out to work in mines, railways, docks and factories. Together with the Industrial Revolution and the increase in family size, a ...

the exploitation lurking in the shadows of the Industrial Revolution. From the cotton mills to the depths of the mines, thousands upon thousands of people – men, women and children – worked ...

The Industrial Revolution was only made possible once rudimentary coal-fired steam engines were used to pump water out of mines so that miners could mine more coal. Eventually, the coal-fired engines ...