Child labor and the totally NOT evil United States
Submitted by gjohnsit on Mon, 08/07/2023 - 12:36pm
You may think that America's rolling back child labor laws would be embarrassing to the world, but you would be wrong.
Child Labor Laws
Hellraisers Journal: Review of John Spargo's "The Bitter Cry of the Children,” Enslaved at Ages 4 & 5!
Submitted by JayRaye on Wed, 03/16/2016 - 12:59pmCapital has neither morals nor ideals; its interests are always
and everywhere expressible in terms of cash profits.
Capital in the United states in the twentieth century calls for children
as loudly as it called in England a century ago.
-John Spargo
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Friday March 16, 1906
From The New York Times: "The Children of the Poor," Part II
In its March 3rd edition, the Times published an in-depth review of the newly published book by John Spargo which documents the suffering of the millions of children who are born and reared in poverty within our great American prosperity. Yesterday we present part one of that review, entitled "Children of the Poor." We conclude the article today with part two.
CHILDREN OF THE POOR [Part II]
-----A Passionless but Terrible Description of
Their Condition in This Country.*
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