Technology's Victims: The Breaker Boys, Ellen Webster Palmer, and the BIA.

Authors :: Stout, Zoe
Source :: Social Studies Journal. Spr 1991 20:26-32.
Publication Year :: 1991
Abstract: Explores, in a reprint of the 1989 Junior Division National History Day winning paper, the history of some technological developments in Pennsylvania's coal mining industry. Examines the "breaker boys," youths who sorted coal in severe working conditions. Introduces Ellen Webster Palmer, who addressed the problem by organizing the Boys' Industrial Association (BIA). (CH)

Language :: English
ISSN :: 0886-9286
Volume :: 20
Database :: ERIC
Journal :: Social Studies Journal
Publication Type :: Academic Journal
Accession number :: EJ433705
Document Type :: Journal Articles<br />Historical Materials<br />Reports - General