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1842 Mines and Collieries Act
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Mines and Collieries Act 1842
Miner's Act
The Bill
10th of August 1842
• House of Lords - House of Commons
Changes
• the idea making children under 18 work only one day on two was removed
• The age decreased from thirteen to ten years old
• thirteen year old boys controlled the machines
• prohibited: female labour & the employment of boys under ten in coal mines.
• demanded more inspections underground
• did not regulate working hours
Impact and Significance
economically- less money
socially- healthy
How did it start?
• 1830 and 1865, Coal was the major source of British mining
• methods of coal extraction were very primitive
• 1841 - mining industry employed 216,000 people
• worked for 11 or 12 hours; however some remained underground for 26.
No Consciousness
What is it?
• ’out of sight, out of mind’
• only four inspectors
• gas explosion, breaking down of tunnels, diseases like bronchitis or asthma led to 4000
• No female was to be employed underground
• No boy under 10 years old was to be employed underground.
Lord Ashley
Why did they start to care?
• speech to Parliament
• "girls unsuitable for marriage and unfit to be mothers"
• eleven girls, fifteen boys died while working
• appealed to Victorian prudery
• 1838
Mr George Armitage -
" I dare venture to say that many of the wives who come from pits know nothing of sewing or any household duty, such as women ought to know."
• Queen Victoria
Image by Tom Mooring