Minor miners: A brief reflection on child labor underground
WEBOct 31, 2014 · It has been more than a century since one of the first child labor laws in the raised the minimum age of mineworkers to 12, but some mines in Colorado are still encouraging children to descend into the bowels of the Earth — as tourists now, of course. But the thought that, not that long ago, children not much older than mine were working ...