Breaker boys working in Ewen Breaker Coal Mine, South Pittston, Pennsylvania, USA 1910. A breaker boy was a coal-mining worker in the United States and United Kingdom, whose job was to separate impurities from coal by hand in a coal breaker. breaker boys

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