What can you infer and talk about We have touched already on child labour: but it deserves further examination...This was true in the mines, both in inefficient small-scale pits where the roadways were sometimes so narrow that children could most easily pass through them; and in several larger coalfields, where—as the coal face drew further away from the shaft—children were in demand as ‘hurryers’ and to operate the ventilation ports. In the mills, the child and juvenile labour force grew yearly;and in several of the out-worker or ‘dishonourable’ trades the hours of labor became longer and the work more intense.