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"This is a superb study of the rise and fall of child labour in the coal mines of Canada in the days of the industrial revolution. We learn about the attitudes of employers, governments and social reformers, but above all we also meet the pit boys themselves. Robert McIntosh takes us into their workplaces, homes, families, and communities and presents them as young industrial workers who struggled to achieve some measure of power within the historical circumstances of their times. Based on intensive research and careful analysis, this is an impressive work of scholarship and a unique contribution to the social history of childhood" David Frank, Department of History, University of New Brunswick
"A major contribution to work in the field of coal mining history in Canada, and clearly intersects with research on the history of the family and the rise of the common schools." Allen Seager, Department of History, Simon Fraser University
"This is a superb study of the rise and fall of child labour in the coal mines of Canada in the days of the industrial revolution. We learn about the attitudes of employers, governments and social reformers, but above all we also meet the pit boys themselves. Robert McIntosh takes us into their workplaces, homes, families, and communities and presents them as young industrial workers who struggled to achieve some measure of power within the historical circumstances of their times. Based on intensive research and careful analysis, this is an impressive work of scholarship and a unique contribution to the social history of childhood" David Frank, Department of History, University of New Brunswick "A major contribution to work in the field of coal mining history in Canada, and clearly intersects with research on the history of the family and the rise of the common schools." Allen Seager, Department of History, Simon Fraser University