Gruesome Pictures From The 1900s Showing The Struggles Of Working Children Before Child Labor Was Abolished

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While I disagree with the Republicans on many things, the claim that they would like to bring back child labor is completely baseless. Conjecture and hyperbole about the views of people we disagree with just increases division in this country.

Actually the whole family still works in the same business lol this is where I live

Right! They have a restaurant and an oyster factory where they house all of the boats and stuff; plus they collect the shells after people have eaten the oysters, to put back into the ocean so that new oysters can grow. Yay conservation! They're very proud of what they do and where we live.

these kids have such haunting eyes. how sad, and painful it must've been for them.

Years ago, most kids went barefoot in the warm months. That was normal.

After watching Alienist, nothing would surprise me in this era.

thankfully it was better times then

Why in God's name would you even think that?

While Dan mentioned his remark in a rather rude, accusatory way (which is unethical and immature), linguistically, he wasn’t wrong. A simple fix (for anyone interested, so ignore this comment if you aren’t) would be the addition of ‘ unfortunately ‘ between the ‘ it’ and ‘ was’ in the original comment to be: ‘ I can only think of how easy it unfortunately was to prey on these children’.

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Jealous? The way this is phrased makes it sound like, "ah man, child predators used to have it so easy back in the day!"

My grandfather had to drop out of school to support his family when his father was blackballed after he tried to create a workers' union. He went to the stockyards at 10.

The introduction says the photographer took the in 1908, so it's extremely unlikely any of them are still alive. They would be around 120 years old.

but maybe their children are alive

The cotton is in what is basically a woody pod that has split open, and the corners of the places where it opened are hard and sharp.

Oysters used to actually be food for the poor, however, we started eating all of them and eventually they became scarce for many reasons and so they became the food of the rich.

Do we care about the kids are making our new smartphones, headsets, clothing etc.? Do we all buy fair trade products...?

At the time oysters and lobsters both were considered food for poorer folks.

or they knew about it but didn't care about them. . .

Oysters were NOT for rich people; they were very much eaten by regular workers back then.

Actually, Oysters in those days were a staple food for poor people as were lobster and prawns, not a luxury ; Only in the last 50 years because of overfishing and excess demand has the price got to the level where they are looked on as a 'luxury' food....

They still don't.

just like the kids that made the sneakers you wear or the phone you posted this comment from :)

I wonder what that did to their eyesight?

So do they blend in?

I hope their ghosts will forever haunt industry until things impove - which probably wont be any time soon