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" I have a belt round my waist and a chain passing between my legs, and I go on my hands and feet. The road is very steep, and we have to hold by a rope, and when there is no rope, by anything we can catch hold of. "
The Monthly Review - Page 177
1842
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Facts and Figures, Issue 1

Economics - 1841 - 278 pages
...Betty Harris, aged thirty-seven, drawer in a coal-pit, Little Bolton, Lancashire, says — " I hr.ve a belt round my waist, and a chain passing between...rope, by anything we can catch hold of. There are six wora^n and about six boys and girls in the pit I work in : it is very hard work for a woman. The pit...
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The Churchman's Monthly Review and Chronicle

Christianity - 1842 - 832 pages
...situation of the women in a state of pregnancy. ' I have a belt round my waist,' says Betty Harris, ' and a chain passing between my legs, and I go on my...hands and feet. The road is very steep, and we have to bold by a rope, and where there is no rope, by anything we can catch hold of. It is very hard work...
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London Medical Gazette: Or, Journal of Practical Medicine, Volume 30

1842 - 1042 pages
...practice prevails. Thus Betty Harris, aged 37, drawer in a coal-pit at Little Bolton, says: — " I have a belt round my waist, and a chain passing between...feet. The road is very steep, and we have to hold by a 4U4 405 rope, and when there is no rope, by any thing we can catch hold of. There are six women and...
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The Christian remembrancer; or, The Churchman's Biblical ..., Volume 5

1843 - 862 pages
...upon.'] "— Pp. 80, 81. " Betty Harris, aged thirty-seven, drawer in a coal-pit, Little Bolton : 'I have a belt round my waist, and a chain passing between...steep, and we have to hold by a rope, and, when there hi no rope, by anything we can catch hold of. There are six women and about six boys and girls in tbe...
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The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History and Politics of ..., Volume 84

Books - 1843 - 894 pages
...accurate in their evidence on their own condition. ' I have & belt round my waist,' says Betty Harris, ' and a chain passing between my legs, and I go on my...is very steep ; and we have to hold by a rope, and, where there is no rope, by any thing we can catch hold of. It is very hard work for a woman. The pit...
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Annual Register, Volume 84

Edmund Burke - History - 1843 - 942 pages
...accurate in their evidence on their own condition. ' I have a belt round my waist,' says Betty Harris, ' and a chain passing between my legs, and I go on my...is very steep ; and we have to hold by a rope, and, where there is no rope, by any thing we can catch hold of. It is very hard work fur a woman. The pit...
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The White Slaves of England: Comp. from Official Documents. With Twelve ...

John C. Cobden - Labor - 1853 - 528 pages
...is another good thing.' " Betty Harris, aged thirty-seven, drawer in a coal-pit, Little Bolton : ' I have a belt round my waist and a chain passing between...have to hold by a rope, and when there is no rope, by any thing we can catch hold of. There are six women and about six boys and girls in the pit I work...
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Speeches of the Earl of Shaftesbury ... Upon Subjects Having Relation ...

Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of Shaftesbury - Labor and laboring classes - 1868 - 466 pages
...situation of the women in a state of pregnancy. " I have a belt round my waist," says Betty Harris, " and a chain passing between my legs, and I go on my...is very steep, and we have to hold by a rope, and where there is no rope, by anything we can catch hold of. It is very hard work for a woman. . . . The...
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The Republican Campaign Text Book for 1880 ...

Republican Congressional Committee - Campaign literature - 1880 - 240 pages
...have a belt around my waist and a chain between my legs to the truck, and I go on my hands and fret y the road is very steep, and we have to hold by a rope,...catch hold of. There are six women and about six boys or girls in the pit I work in ; it is very wet, and the water comes over our clog-tops always, and...
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Republican Campaign Text Book

Campaign literature - 1880 - 236 pages
...have a, belt around my waist and a chain between my legs to the truck, and I go on my hands and fett ; the road is very steep, and we have to hold by a rope,...catch hold of. There are six women and about six boys or girl* in the pit I work in ; it is very wet, and the water comes over our clog-tops always, and...
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