The Brutal Reality For Coal Miners in History

My grandfather was a coal miner for 44 years. I don’t know when he started, but he was born in 1900, so he could well have been one of these kids (he worked in Ohio, though). He had terrible breathing issues (both emphysema and black lung), and was was disabled for most of my life. He died in 1978, the day after my 18th birthday.

Great pictures! Very sad

Fascinating. Lovely music, too. Thank you as always 😊

That is real hard labour 😮

It's hard to watch and hard to believe that these photos captured working conditions of ''only'' about 100 years, not 1,000 years, ago... Heartbreaking!

For those who dont understand or cant relate,....when you do repeated actions for days,weeks,months OR LONGER,your body becomes accustomed to what your doing,basically it's no longer hard or " foreign " to your body.your use to it....
So a job thats very difficult to person with a sit down at a desk job,is not to a person who does the job daily.........I'm talking the WORK,not the danger of this job...

They really knew the meaning of hard work back then and took nothing for granted unlike today

My family from Wales were all coal miners.

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See, this is why the Tesla is the dirtiest vehicle in human history. Not it's degrading battery is the only main problem! The even bigger problem is, that in any powerstation only up to 35% of the even dirtier coal's energy is transformed to current. But then you haven't already calculated the transforming, transporting, loading and discharging losses in! The oil however, comes up almost voluntary. With petrol/diesel engines you could at least use the waste energy for heating your car! Yes, the petrol has to be distributed first, but that is also the case with current. So, whenever you see one of these Tesla Hipsters, give him a whipping, he deserves it.

These pictures make you wonder how they accommodated their LGBQT+ child employees.

Uhhh. I don’t think there’s ever been a time I would want to be a coal miner

Minecraft is proof that the children long for this

I guess this was before white privilege. And this was before women wanted to be men. My grandfather started working in the coal mines in Utah when he was 8 years old. He's son, my father, was only able to so to school once in a while because of farm work. He never the less worked and lived on a sake of beans to go to college. He was the first generation of American men that was able to leave the farm and make a better life for himself. That is NOT privilege that is called work. And my didn't have to do all that back breaking work. Then we ended up with grand kids that are as worthless, brainless and selfish as any degenerate people have ever been. They are useless to themselves and others and deserve the pointless life they are making for themselves.

Man I thought that I had it bad having to do chores after weekend morning cartoons!

Our hats off to many who worked & slaved in order to not only make a living but to also provide a commodity for others. It seems difficult to almost impossible to get a 14 year old or even a 20 year old to cut the grass. Times have indeed changed. Time for parents to take back their God given roles.

I was born in 1940. By then, Child Labor Laws had been enacted to protect kids.