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Summary
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English:
A nine-man gang unloads a collier into a barge. Four are in the hold, not visible. The four on the deck who use their weight to jerk the ropes are called whippers. The ninth man swings the coal basket into a weighing machine, where it is show into a barge. A metage man (not one of the gang) supervises the weighing.
On a hard but not untypical day the gang would unload 98 tons of coal, the whippers climbing a vertical distance of more than a mile.
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| Source | Mayhew, Henry "London Labour and the London Poor", III, 1861 |
| Author | Unknown engraver |
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This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or fewer . This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office ) before January 1, 1929. |
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