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,...
child labor
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.
Back when I was doing the research for Empire of Timber, I ran across a story in a timber journal about a child laborer from sometime around 1900. See, the.
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 also proposing weaker laws, a spokesman for the Ohio Restaurant Association testified that extending work...
Breaker boys, Woodward Coal Mines, Kingston, Pennsylvania., ca. 1900
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.
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 asylum seekers had rafted across the Rio Grande from Mexico and were detained by U.S....
On April 16, 1836, Massachusetts passed the nation's first law limiting child labor. It required that children under the age of 15 working in factories be given three months off.
Boys selling newspapers, Brooklyn Bridge, 1908
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.