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Behind the Bastards

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The Kenning Owen Child Labor Act, 1916

A 14 year old immigrant girl named Camilla Tielli testifies about how she was working at the mill when a machine caught her hair and tore her scalp off. The product of this is that there starts to be like a really mainstream push against child labor, which you know, I think you would have thought would have started earlier because again, we're on like century two of child labor with the US by this point,. But apparently it takes this to actually make people go, wait, maybe this is bad.

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