Pennsylvania & My Other Daily Travels: Cheap Labor and Borderline Slavery Helped to Break a World's Record

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Friday, May 19, 2023

Cheap Labor and Borderline Slavery Helped to Break a World's Record

This group of Breaker Boys" worked from dawn to dusk at the Woodward Coal Mine in Plymouth, Pennsylvania for very little pay. The boys were expected to help their families survive by using their meager earnings at the coal mines company store. The workers broke the world record by mining 1,000,000... Sign in to see full entry.

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