child labor

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• SOURCE: Jacobin
  7/7/2023
  

  Child Labor Was Essential to Early Capitalism—Don't be Shocked it's Coming Back

  by Steve Fraser

  As employers seek new possibilities to exploit labor, state legislatures are going back to the future with rollbacks of child labor bans. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  4/18/2023
  

  Child Labor is Back; History Says Don't be Surprised

  by Beth English

  In an effort to attract investment from key industries, state governments in the south actively rescinded existing laws banning child labor, showing that there has been no straight line of progress on the issue. 

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• SOURCE: Labor and Working Class History Association
  4/1/2022
  

  Mill Mother's Lament: The Legacy of Ella May Wiggins

  by Karen Sieber

  The city of Gastonia has struggled to agree on the commemoration of the bloody 1929 Loray Mill strike, including how to account for the murder of pregnant union activist Ella May Wiggins. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  8/27/2020
  

  Abolishing Child Labor Took the Specter of ‘White Slavery’ and the Job Market’s Near Collapse During the Great Depression

  by Betsy Wood

  Reformers who sought to ban child labor had to make significant compromises with agricultural interests and white supremacists, explaining why significant loopholes in the ban exist.