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 timber companies didn't want to shut the saws down in order to clean up all...
child labor
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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 are going toward their more favored choice--legalizing child labor. Legislators in Iowa and Minnesota introduced...
Lewis Hine, "Little Lottie, a Regular Oyster Shucker in Alabama Canning Co., Bayou La Batre, Alabama, 1911
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.