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Sandy Solomon: Diary from a Tomato Cannery, 1912

I walked part way home with a girl of ten
who’d peeled tomatoes from 6 am
to 6:30 in the evening.
“Things to eat is so high,” she said.
“We can’t go to school. We gotter work.”

December 6, 2023 · 9 Comments

Steve Fraser: Caution | Children at Work

The Return of Child Labor Is the Latest Sign of American Decline

July 11, 2023 · 7 Comments

Video: Buskers

Buskers is the story of Packo, a young Dubliner, and Milos, a Romanian immigrant, who battle to secure a space to beg at a Dublin train station. After a comical … Continue reading

December 20, 2020 · Leave a comment

Fleda Brown: Child Labor

Child labor is desperately sought by both the manufacturers and the starving children. Morality is another one of those words.   Sometimes there’s a haze of words, sometimes a fog. … Continue reading

January 26, 2016 · 1 Comment

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