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yeah not gonna be “old” days for long. they’ve already started laxing restrictions on several states.
Kentucky just allowed 12 year olds to work for nonprofits 18 hours a week.
I’m sure through grit and hard work they managed to get rich in later life.
It’s likely their pain ended much sooner
Is this back when America was great?
These kids are draining the swamp.
Exploitation begins at home!
the ferengi would be so proud of our civilization
Those are some hard eyes. Seven years old going on 40.
“The real cause of poverty is too much labor regulation!”
“Too much labor regulation” is one of the causes of poverty. Definitely not the main one, though, and there’s “too little labor regulation” somewhere as well on that list.
Jesus, the state of those dresses. I hope those are “work” clothes, but have a very bad feeling that’s their only clothes.
For late XIX’th century working class those would be their only clothes usually.
EDIT: Putting this in contrast with photos of the inhabitants of the valley my ancestors from paternal side are from (which were mostly all murdered in 1915), I can see from where all the pride about that place came and also envy of the surrounding Muslims and the particular word it was renamed into Turkish (something like “mansions”). In terms of clothes being clean and whole those photos look amazing, and many-story stone houses and such. Just not as amazing when looking at them from XXI-century city perspective.
What has happened to their hands?
I actually know a bit of backstory about this photo - it was a series on child labor in the south, and these are photos of oyster shuckers for the Maggioni Canning Co. around 1911.
I’m assuming shucking oysters are rough on the hands, so it could be wounds, but it also looks like crusted-on dirt, so I’m not sure.
Here’s another photo where you can see their hands a bit better:
And here’s the original untouched photo:
This is a hilarious photo of they weren’t in such conditions.
Didn’t even notice that at first. All I could see were the thousand-yard stares
We educate our youth, supposedly so they can contribute to society. In tribal life, if your father hunted he took you along and taught you how to hunt, or if your mother made baskets she taught you to make baskets. So in a weird way, child labor is just capitalisms extension to that model.
Teaching children useful survival skills in a subsistence hunter gatherer society - woke
Teaching children to operate machinery in order to make higher profits for robber baron capitalists - broke
Oh I’m not saying it’s right. (Though the votes on that post reflect the readers’ capability of understanding nuance.) but it took steps even before we got to capitalism. Those pyramids didn’t build themselves.
