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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Father Terrence who wrote (42398)6/29/1999 12:45:00 AM
From: Grainne  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
Are you seriously asserting that child labor did not exist in the United States on a huge scale? I don't know which Rand book is obscuring reality for you at the moment, but here are three primary source documents, with lots of photographs, detailing child labor in the United States:

historyplace.com

history.ohio-state.edu

history.ohio-state.edu

And now at this site is a detailed history, with statistics, of child labor in the United States. Did you know that it was widespread until 1938? You would be more fun to debate if you were a little more accurate in your statements. Vague comments to the effect that it was not so bad in the U.S. before the era of social benefits, and vague references to books you read that are better than the books other people read, don't cut it. Now if you could PROVE with primary source documents that your statements are true, that would be another story entirely. But you cannot. However, as an exercise you might try to show me with documentation that there was very little hunger in the United States in the years before Aid to Families With Dependent Children kicked in earlier in this century, which is one of the absurd things you assert, or at least I understand it that way. Please correct me if I've misunderstood your position.

earlham.edu
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