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Episode 30 - Child Labor: Pull Your Weight You Little Bastards

Episode 30 - Child Labor: Pull Your Weight You Little Bastards

Released Wednesday, 6th February 2019
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Episode 30 - Child Labor: Pull Your Weight You Little Bastards

Episode 30 - Child Labor: Pull Your Weight You Little Bastards

Episode 30 - Child Labor: Pull Your Weight You Little Bastards

Episode 30 - Child Labor: Pull Your Weight You Little Bastards

Wednesday, 6th February 2019
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Welcome to episode 30, which may be our most depressing one yet. This week, we will be covering the long, tear-soaked saga of using kids as cheap (or free!) labor. Follow along as we talk about the adorable, four year old miners grave from Roman Spain, the plight of poor, medieval peasant children, the (relative) enlightened attitude of Golden Age Islam, China once again being better than everyone, and the sheer depravity of using kids in early factories. No worries, though, the Founding Fathers were fans!

Sources:

https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/a394gp/smartphones-child-labor-cobalt-mines-africa-congo-amnesty-international

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2048231/clothing-factories-eastern-china-import-child-labour-migrant

http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1020708.shtml

https://nypost.com/2018/05/08/trump-administration-wants-to-roll-back-child-labor-laws/

https://www.jstor.org/stable/44080270?read-now=1&seq=12#page_scan_tab_contents

http://anthropology.msu.edu/anp455-fs14/2014/10/02/growing-up-in-ancient-egypt/

https://slaveryinjustice.wordpress.com/slavery-in-ancient-china/

http://chnm.gmu.edu/cyh/case-studies/187

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/312377147_CHILD_LABOUR_ISLAMIC_PERSPECTIVE

https://www.thoughtco.com/medieval-child-introduction-1789121

https://www.representingchildhood.pitt.edu/medieval_child.htm

https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2017/article/history-of-child-labor-in-the-united-states-part-1.htm

https://spartacus-educational.com/IRaccidents.htm

https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/articles/teaching-content/history-child-labor/

Beard, Mary. Spqr: A History of Ancient Rome. London: Profile Books, 2015. Print.

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