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Post by Maggie on Nov 4, 2013 10:44:41 GMT -6
The Mail (UK) Online has another amazing photo essay on offer. Today it is a look at London in photographs taken in 1877. The human misery is unmistakable. (As always, click the image to see a bigger version.)  Child labor was very real. An obviously sick woman with a baby. Street musicians
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Post by Woodrow LI on Nov 5, 2013 3:16:45 GMT -6
Much of that carried over to the USA up until the 1950s. Yet, it also helped carry us through the Great Depression and 2 World Wars. But as families became more urban farm chores ended. Along with them our work ethic training suffered. I can remember being a 5 to 7 year old fresh off the farm and Living in New Britain Ct. I was able to make spending money with my shoe shine box, Sweeping out the Butcher shop, and other odd jobs. That came to an end with child labor laws. Fortunately we moved back to the farm and farm chores were still legal. It was rough, but it kept me out of trouble and made me proud of every nickle I made.
We made a trade off when we changed from a rural to urban nation in the 1950s. Wonder how my life would have been, if as 14 year old I hadn't been able to trade washing planes, and doing odd jobs around the airport for flying lessons?
Child labor may not always been so bad.
It was not always the "Artful Dodger" (Oliver Twist), "Hard Times" and "A Tale of Two Cities"
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