Pretty messed up that child labor is making a comeback in the US

I guess it’s not surprising given decades of attacks on workers’ rights, but I thought that with all the “protect the children” rhetoric, there wouldn’t be so much support for allowing 14-year-olds to work in factories or long hours. Of course that was empty rhetoric and only applies to wedge issues like book bans and keeping school bathrooms policed. A few headlines about “labor shortages” and it’s time for red states to start letting more and younger children work. These laws are mainly to protect immigrant children working in the fields and factories. It won’t be affluent white suburban kids doing this work. This is not about your after school gig.

The declining rate of profit and its consequences…

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Virgo79 · 61-69, M

It states they "can" work up to 6 hrs per day.
Theres nothing mandatory that i saw.

SW-User

@Virgo79 Mandatory isn't the point. It's that it shouldn't be allowed in the first place. Laws against child labor were hard fought over the course of the 20th century for a reason. If adults don't want to work low paying jobs with poor conditions and no benefits, then the "market" says the solution is kids need to fill those jobs? That is a warped labor market.

trackboy · 22-25, M

@Virgo79 a lot of parents will force their kids to work those jobs while in school. the kids get no c choice in it. parents will beat their kids and then kick them out of the house if they are not working while in school. they tell the kid work comes first and school comes last.

Virgo79 · 61-69, M

@trackboy i don't think theres that much work available after school hrs