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mahatmakanejeeves

(57,232 posts) Thu Jan 26, 2017, 01:21 PM Jan 2017

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History of Child Labor in the United States

From the BLS Twitter feed. Hmmmm. You'd best get these while you can.

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History of child labor in the United States—part 1: little children working

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History of child labor in the United States—part 2: the reform movement

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History of Child Labor in the United States (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2017 OP

The Industrial Revolution was largely fought on the backs of children Warpy Jan 2017 #1

Warpy

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1. The Industrial Revolution was largely fought on the backs of children

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Thu Jan 26, 2017, 05:03 PM

Jan 2017

who were small enough to crawl inside and under machinery. Lots of them didn't make it out alive. Even more didn't make it out whole.

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