20 Outdated Occupations That Have Bitten the Dust

Breaker boy

Another Victorian profession that has thankfully disappeared, coal breaking entailed separating impurities from coal by hand, and was mainly carried out by children. The work was dangerous and children often cut and burned their hands, and some even lost their lives.

Public condemnation grew in the late 1800s and early 1900s, and by 1920 the cruel practice had ended.

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