In 19th-century Britain, some of the harshest working conditions were in coal mines, where children were hired because they could crawl through narrow tunnels. If that shocks you, don't forget that children work as well in our gold mines, exposed to mercury fumes.
In addition, an International Labour Organisation report in 2006, "Child Labour in Gold Mining", describes Filipino children doing compressor mining, where they have to dive into pools of mud "wearing crude eye masks and breathing oxygen from a tube with the help of a compressor".
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