Opinion: Don’t force kids into child labor in America
Is making little children work real jobs in the real work force in America Dickensian?I do know we in America have our own sordid tradition, one that continued not so very long ago, of forcing kids to work, and I’m against allowing that sorry situation to come back. Because we’re in real danger of allowing the backward slide to begin.
Mmm. Well, I do recall that in other civilized countries that latter rule is not in play, and I have seen it work unproblematically. In a hotel restaurant in the remote Scottish Highlands hamlet of Brora a few summers ago, I half-jokingly asked our young waitress, daughter of the owners, for advice on which whiskey to have with my fish and chips, knowing she couldn’t be of help.
Precocious Scotch experts aside, those aren’t really the kinds of jobs lawmakers are asking that children be allowed to toil at. Claiming that relaxing child labor laws is necessary to confront the shortage of workers in some sectors of the economy, GOP electeds in Iowa wrote a bill that would have allowed those as young as 14 to work in mining, logging and meatpacking jobs. The state party later dropped those provisions in the face of howls of protest.
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