Summary Of Time Machine: Children Working In The Coal Industry
Being one of Pennsylvania's main industry, the coal business did some dirty business to create success. In “Time Machine (1902): Children working in the Pennsylvania coal mines” written by McClure’s Magazine, this elaborates on the issues that the coal industry generated. It further explains that coal companies have been letting young boys work in terrible conditions with an unfair pay.
These young boys usually work as coal breakers. Their job entailed that they by hand should separate impurities from coal in a processing plant that break coal into different sizes. Others worked as a slate picker which was to pick slate rock off of the coal. When the workers decided to strike, the boss would remove their right to have coal and arrest if they had any. Doing this made people starve until they came back to work because you couldn’t cook anything to eat. An example found in the text was that a woman was hiding coal and was so scared of the people interviewing her. She thought they were men sent to arrest her for the coal she had. The boss usually took advantage and was unfair towards all of his workers. …show more content…
He described that there was low pay for these boys that would work all day. When the boys would start they would be paid forty cents, then the highest they could earn a raise to would be ninety cents. The average was seventy cents for the children, while on the other hand, according to Mr. Vasquez the average adult pay was nine dollars a day. Additionally to this the children worked in gross, grimy buildings where they were supposed to bend low over their chutes to work. This leads the boys to prematurely round their shoulders and narrow their chest. This left them damaged the rest of their
These young boys usually work as coal breakers. Their job entailed that they by hand should separate impurities from coal in a processing plant that break coal into different sizes. Others worked as a slate picker which was to pick slate rock off of the coal. When the workers decided to strike, the boss would remove their right to have coal and arrest if they had any. Doing this made people starve until they came back to work because you couldn’t cook anything to eat. An example found in the text was that a woman was hiding coal and was so scared of the people interviewing her. She thought they were men sent to arrest her for the coal she had. The boss usually took advantage and was unfair towards all of his workers. …show more content…
He described that there was low pay for these boys that would work all day. When the boys would start they would be paid forty cents, then the highest they could earn a raise to would be ninety cents. The average was seventy cents for the children, while on the other hand, according to Mr. Vasquez the average adult pay was nine dollars a day. Additionally to this the children worked in gross, grimy buildings where they were supposed to bend low over their chutes to work. This leads the boys to prematurely round their shoulders and narrow their chest. This left them damaged the rest of their