Lest we forget.....

Child labor laws: the Why of them, the When, and the work-around of them which has been done sub-rosa over time.

From an newsletter by Heather Cox Richardson,  in the Washington Post:

"Finally, in 1938, as part of the New Deal effort to level the playing field between workers and employers, Congress passed the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). It established a federal minimum wage, a 44-hour work week, and an end to work for those under 16. During his quest for the legislation, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt told Congress, “A self-supporting and self-respecting democracy can plead no justification for the existence of child labor, no economic reason for chiseling worker's wages or stretching workers’ hours.”

By the time the FLSA passed, laws requiring children to attend school had joined with the high unemployment of the Depression years to shift the idea that children should work to the idea that they should stay in school, and worker protections and Social Security, passed in the same era, meant that parents no longer needed their children’s wages to survive."

Here is LINK the Newsletter by Mz Richardson.    

I really don't think we want to go back there or we will just deteriorate as a civil and just society, something which we are aiming to become.