Carusu (plural carusi) is the Sicilian word for "boy" and is derived from the Latin carus which means "dear"[1] In the mid-1800s through the early 1900s in Sicily, carusu was used to denote a "mine-boy", a labourer in a sulfur, salt or potash mine who worked next to a picuneri or pick-man, and carried raw ore from deep in the mine to the surface.[2][3] As with other mining industries, the use of carusi declined as mines switched to other, more efficient methods of transporting minerals to the surface,[4] and the use of children is said to have ended by the 1920s or 1930s,[5] but teenagers were still employed to carry ore to the surface as late as the 1950s.
^(in Italian) I Caress Archived 2013-07-14 at the Wayback Machine, Associazione Amici della miniera (Access date: August 28, 2013)
^Kutney, Sulfur, p. 46
^Child Slavery in Sicily 1910 Archived 2014-04-20 at the Wayback Machine, by Tom Verso, South of Rome–West of Ellis Island, January 13, 2008
^Ferrara, The Sulphur Mining Industry in Sicily, p. 117
^Keahey, John (2011). Seeking Sicily : a cultural journey through myth and reality in the heart of the Mediterranean (1st ed.). New York: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-0312597054.
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and close to the surface. Local wages were low and underpaid children (carusu - 'mine boys') were used. Sicily also had easy transport by sea. The economy...
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