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Behind the Bastards

CHAPTER

The Pros and Cons of Child Labor

Child labor wasn't discussed to these regions because it wasn't seen as an issue. One boy touching the recounted his attitude towards facing the day at the mine this way: I'll always think of my poor blind father and my mother at home, but I won't never play with the boys at all. And then the cracker boss won't have to beat me like he does the others. The chairman of the National Association of Manufacturers said about a law to abolish child labor that they were being foisted upon them by outside agitated labor unions.

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