Mines act

Mines act

Mines Act 1842 was a piece of legislation passed in Great Britain in 1842 which forbade women to work beneath the surface of a mine.

The reasons for this were moral. Due to the heat and steaminess in a mine women would take their shirts off to cool down, as the men often did. It was deemed immoral for children who would also work in the mines to see women half-naked at such a young age and for women to be exposed to the gaze of men from their own communities.

Also included in the act was the point that no boys were allowed to be employed beneath the surface of a mine who were under the age of 10. And parish apprentices between the ages of 10 and 18 were allowed to be employed beneath the surface of a mine.


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