| Description | Tracks 1 - 3: Actuality with young women and Charles Parker in Barnsley, South Yorkshire. The young women take turns to recite extracts from the verbatim accounts of children to the Child Employment Commission (1842) in their own Yorkshire accents, directed by Parker who records multiple takes. The extracts are about the conditions of working in a pit as young women and about how they missed going to school.
Tracks 4 - 5: Actuality takes as above, but with an adult man reading testimony of a pit owner speaking about the conditions for the workers and whether there were children or women working for him. Another man reads extract about the working conditions for the miner children.
Track 6: One of the young women reads more extracts of a testimony, she reads an extract in which she describes going to Sunday school, and the effect of pit work on her health.
Total: 16.28 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0761980 |