The Times Magazine had a good profile a couple of weeks ago on a kid maimed in a meatpacking plant. Read it if you haven't. After he finished hosing down the machines, he started scrubbing blood and fat off the steel parts with chemicals that,...
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While it is the Republican Party ultimately pushing for the return of significant child labor to America, the problem is located most deeply within migrant communities, where government oversight is.
Great arguments from Republicans here on justifying its love affair with child labor. The reasons offered to justify these initiatives often emphasize child welfare. In Ohio, where Republican legislators are.
The full on Republican embrace of forcing children to work says everything you need to know about the party and about how it sees the future, i.e., the glory days of the Coolidge administration. When Iowa lawmakers voted last week to roll back certain child...
MCALLEN, TX - JUNE 12: A two-year-old Honduran asylum seeker cries as her mother is searched and detained near the U.S.-Mexico border on June 12, 2018 in McAllen, Texas. The.
Arkansas Republicans are so pro-family they want the young kids to spend more time with their parents, down at the foundry: Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed a measure this.
As Timothy Noah notes, the rise of child labor in America is directly connected to Republican policies on the issue, as in Republicans are objectively pro-child labor. Child labor is back. The Labor Department’s wage and hour division recorded a 37 percent increase in 2022 in the...
For once, the massive amount of child labor in this nation is receiving attention. I talk about it frequently, but as a third-rate historian on a top 100 political science.
Not enough workers? Well, sure, we could pay more. Or we could open the doors to the millions of immigrants who wish to come and work here. But instead, Republicans.
Capital mobility can hamper decent labor protections in a few ways. As I pointed out in Out of Sight (amazingly that book came out 8 years ago, man I gotta finish these new projects as the book publication drought is getting irritable to me), companies...
There is just so, so much more child labor in this nation than most Americans realize. We are hearing about it a little more now because a Biden Department of.
The history of child labor is well-known, in no small part thanks to the powerful photographs of Lewis Hine that went so far in convincing people that maybe kids should.