I often wonder, why did child labor suddenly become so horrible around 1900, and then only in factories? Doesn’t it occur to everyone that children were driven like beasts since the dawn of agriculture, and to this day? Why is it okay to work them on farms but not elsewhere?
Child labor is grotesquely misrepresented by the educrats who want to confine unwilling captives in their indoctrination centers. The poor bastards come out not knowing how to read or add, but they are in love with themselves, think they are as clever as can be and are completely infused with self-righteousness and ignorance. They would be far better off working in a mill, where they would learn something and learn to do something. If old man Damon were alive today, he wouldn't accept the detritus that pours out of our "schools".
it’s not, it was a gimick along with retirement to drive down unemployment during the great depression.
In 1870 Massachusetts passed laws limiting women and children to at most 10 hours a day of labor (and requiring at least two exits from any room where more than five people worked). It’s been downhill ever since.