Women and young boys are barred from working underground

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1. Story
2. The Mines and Collieries Act followed the Children's Employment Commission, whose report — illustrated with engravings of children harnessed to coal tubs in low seams — caused a public reaction strong enough to carry legislation quickly. It prohibited the employment underground of women and of boys below a specified age, and it is the clearest instance in the period of published testimony changing the law.
3. Knowledge
4. Coal
5. Industrial child labour
6. Women and young boys are barred from working underground
7. Children's Employment Commission: First Report (Mines)
8. Connections
9. Children's Employment Commission: First Report (Mines)
10. Industrial child labour
11. Coal
12. Women and young boys are barred from working underground
13. Coal
14. The Factory Acts
15. The first factory statute is passed and largely ignored
16. The Factory Act creates an inspectorate
17. Women and young boys are barred from working underground
18. The organic economy and its ceiling
19. The Newcomen atmospheric engine
20. Coke smelting of iron
21. The British canal network
22. Industrial child labour
23. The first commercially successful steam engine begins pumping
24. The Bridgewater Canal opens from Worsley into Manchester
25. The Stockton and Darlington Railway opens
26. Women and young boys are barred from working underground
27. The main-line steam locomotive
28. Evidence
29. Supports the sworn testimony of child workers underground and the direct causal link between the report's publication and the Mines and Collieries Act of the same year. V55 verification basis: NOT consulted; the report is a well-known Parliamentary Paper but no page of it was read here.
30. Supports the prohibition on underground employment of women and of boys below a specified age. V55 verification basis: NOT consulted; the minimum age in the Act is therefore described as "a specified age" rather than stated, and the regnal citation is omitted.