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The 1842 Coal Mines Act forbade the underground employment of _____ in mines.

men
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women and boys under the age of ten
men and women over the age of fifty

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Women and Boys under the age of ten,
this was reported by the Children’s Employment Commission in 1842,
women and young boys worked for long hours with bad conditions, and really bad pay.
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C) woman and boys under the age of ten.
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