Esther M. Zimmer Lederberg
The Industrial Revolution in Great Britain
The Coal Mining Industry
Royal Commission on Employment of Children, First report

Royal Commission on Employment of Children 1st report Clatch-iron windlass

Note women and children mine workers. Women operated the hand operated winches. Women and children descended to the pit-face and were brought back to the brow upon a "clatch-iron".

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