Every time I think that the US is a civilized “first world” country, they find a way to remind me of the reality. It really is shocking how backwards some things are in certain states.
Hope you get a federal law to prevent similar accidents in the future…
Child labor has always been legal and widely used in the US agriculture. In fact American agriculture it’s pretty much dependent on farmers using their large families as free labor.
They’re trying to expand that to other industries but of course it doesn’t work so well without the equivalent of the farmer argument.
But if you’re upset because of the child labor or human rights themselves then that ship has long sailed.
Yes I know that very well. In fact I took part in creating a exhibition about American Child laborers in the turn of the 20th century. It’s just that news like this remind you how backwards the world’s greatest superpower can be…
Here in New York most of the labor on big farms get done by migrants. The Mexicans know more about cows than the locals. Tho laws for maximum hours on farms is being reduced gradually from 60 to eventually 40 before you start to get overtime. So the agricultural industry here is making big moves to automation.
Every time I think that the US is a civilized “first world” country, they find a way to remind me of the reality. It really is shocking how backwards some things are in certain states.
Hope you get a federal law to prevent similar accidents in the future…
First world = aligned with Western forces after WWII
Second world = aligned with Russia
Third world = everyone else
Child labor has always been legal and widely used in the US agriculture. In fact American agriculture it’s pretty much dependent on farmers using their large families as free labor.
They’re trying to expand that to other industries but of course it doesn’t work so well without the equivalent of the farmer argument.
But if you’re upset because of the child labor or human rights themselves then that ship has long sailed.
Yes I know that very well. In fact I took part in creating a exhibition about American Child laborers in the turn of the 20th century. It’s just that news like this remind you how backwards the world’s greatest superpower can be…
Here in New York most of the labor on big farms get done by migrants. The Mexicans know more about cows than the locals. Tho laws for maximum hours on farms is being reduced gradually from 60 to eventually 40 before you start to get overtime. So the agricultural industry here is making big moves to automation.