HISTORY
ABSOLUTISM AND REVOLUTION
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Agricultural work
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factory work
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domestic work
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mining work
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Detailed explanation-1: -Newsies sold newspapers in the big cities. They were usually homeless orphan boys who had no other way to make money.
Detailed explanation-2: -Their story focused on the breaker boys, the young children who cleaned and separated anthracite coal from the rock blasted out of mines deep below ground. These boys became the dust-smeared faces of the Coal Region. More than 13, 000 breaker boys worked in Pennsylvania in 1902.
Detailed explanation-3: -A coal breaker is a coal processing plant which breaks coal into various useful sizes. Coal breakers also remove impurities from the coal (typically slate) and deposit them into a culm dump.
Detailed explanation-4: -The use of breaker boys began around 1866. For 10 hours a day, six days a week, breaker boys would sit on wooden seats, perched over the chutes and conveyor belts, picking slate and other impurities out of the coal.