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American Child Labor, An Unceasing Horror

It Could Happen Here

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The Problem With the 1938 Fair Labor Act

The first child labor law we get federal child labor law that gets that sticks. I like doesn't happen till 1938 when FDR threatens to pack the court. Like, wait, I was right then child labor does equal patriotism. That's basically what they're saying. So eventually FDR gets into this giant fight with the Supreme Court. And here's the thing: Even now, even before all the horror show stuff that we're about to get to you that's happening right now, like not kids, like we never actually dealt with child labor through like the law. We did is either like mechanization, other immigrants who like don't have legal citizenship status or just outsourcing. It's very common

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