Does Child Labor Help Children in Poverty?

[Captdon]

Donnie john praised China, why not make America like China, suicide nets and all? Two dollar an hour sound ok to you righties and libertarians?


"Whatever happened to the good ole days, when children worked in factories?" Emo Philips


http://thepoliticalforums.com/thread...l=1#post380845


"Libertarians - anarchists who want the police to protect them from their slaves." Kim Stanley Robinson

http://marginalrevolution.com/margin...workplace.html

Who's Dommie john? Child labor is, and should be, illegal.

[Chris]

It's illegal except for...

According to the National Safety Council, agriculture is the second most dangerous occupation in the United States. However, current US child labor laws allow child farm workers to work longer hours, at younger ages, and under more hazardous conditions than other working youths. While children in other sectors must be 12 to be employed and cannot work more than 3 hours on a school day, in agriculture, children can work at age 12 for unlimited hours before and after school."

@ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_..._United_States

[Mini Me]

I requested his TB as OP of this tPF.

His opinion had nothing to do with the topic.

Maybe you just don't like his leftist philosopy?

tPF Thread Ban - Note: Please see this announcement if clarification on tPF is required. Additionally, see Rule 10 for further details.

@Dr. Strangelove TB'ed at request of the OP.

[Kacper]

Using kids for your own gain is horrific, we used to do it here in the US until child labor laws finally were passed. They work the kids for peanuts and kids do not complain, those expoiters are the worst kind of criminals

Maybe they are doing it so the same kids do not starve to death. Not sure.

I started working under the table illegally when I was a little shy of 14. I didn't have to. It didn't hurt my grades or keep me out of school. My parents were rather whatever about it. Started working elsewhere when I was 16. I didn't even really need the money. I just put most all of it in a savings account buying a few indulgences here and there along the way. I just liked working and getting out with people outside my own little world I otherwise was in.