Comments on: Child Labour in America

By: SUNRISE

SUNRISE — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:34:14 +0000

WELCOME BACK BOCK…….
I LIKED THAT PIECE ON THE CHILDER IN THE MINES…
I'LL SHOW IT TO MY KIDS…..
DX

By: Dick

Dick — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:04:57 +0000

Builds character does that. None of this ASBO nonsense. (Looks like I beat Old Knudsen to it.)

By: Itinerant

Itinerant — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 14:00:48 +0000

While the US is certainly guilty, it bears a mention that many other countries engaged in this type of practice. I seem to have read something somewhere about cotton mills in "olden day" England (probably elsewhere too) that resulted in arms being lost, etc. It seems to me that human life and misery carried little weight just a short time ago. Maybe nothing has really changed, though.

The church? What a joke they are. They ran those "charitable workhouses" in Ireland until the 1950's! Those kids worked 6 days a week, and were probably molested by a priest on the 7th…

By: Sassy Sundry

Sassy Sundry — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 19:31:35 +0000

Yep, slaves, women, and children. And just look at who made the money—white men.

I'm so proud of being an American.

By: geoff

geoff — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 14:58:59 +0000

My granddad had chunks of shale and coal in his arms to his dying day from working the chutes in Pennsylvania.

Routinely I hear conservatives here discussing how shabbily China acts towards its workers as it modernizes. That never happened in the good ol' USA! We never used child labor, or slave labor, and of course never engaged in genocide.

By: Benny the Bridgebuilder

Benny the Bridgebuilder — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 10:49:23 +0000

Where was the Church while all this was going on?

What price liberation theology?

Who was it said "Suffer little children …" and who was it who said what he meant by it?

More souls for Christ!

By: Conan Drumm

Conan Drumm — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 09:00:55 +0000

And the one child's name mentioned? Owen Jones. Straight from the exploitation of the Welsh mines to capital's new playground in America. American riches are often still generated in much the same way, except the child labour is in some invisible part of the developing world where corruption gives governments the blind eye.