California Is Failing to Protect Health and Safety of Child Farmworkers

https://murica.website/2025/11/california-is-failing-to-protect-health-and-safety-of-child-farmworkers/

From 2023: Alone and Exploited, #Migrant #Children Work Brutal Jobs Across the U.S.

Arriving in record numbers, they’re ending up in dangerous jobs that violate #ChildLabor laws — including in factories that make products for well-known brands like #Cheetos and #FruitOfTheLoom.

By Hannah Dreier
Photographs by Kirsten Luce

Hannah Dreier traveled to Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Minnesota, South Dakota and Virginia for this story and spoke to more than 100 migrant child workers in 20 states.

Published Feb. 25, 2023

Read more [CW - contains graphic descriptions]:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/25/us/unaccompanied-migrant-child-workers-exploitation.html

Archived version [is missing some of the photographs]:
https://archive.ph/Ed8El

#ChildLaborLaws #ImmigrantChildren #Exploitation #CapitalismIsEvil

#LaborDay: Children at Work

"Muckraking journalists and photographers were some of the most helpful in exposing the conditions in which children worked. Among the most famous was #LewisHine, photographer for the National #ChildLabor Committee."

September 3, 2018 by Jessie Kratz,

"Today’s post comes from Megan Huang, an intern in the National Archives History Office.

"The Federal holiday Labor Day honors the American worker. When considering the accomplishments and contributions of the our workers throughout history, one category—the child laborer—doesn’t always come to mind. However, child labor was a significant part of the American labor story."

Read more [CW - contains graphic descriptions of work-related accidents]:
https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2018/09/03/labor-day-children-at-work/

Archived version ['cuz, in case it disappears]:
https://archive.ph/TroFn/

#Project2025 #ChildLaborLaws #ImmigrantsFeedUs #ICERaids #HungerGames #KillThePoor #EatTheRich #USPol #USHistory

#FLPol #ChildLaborLaws #Immigration

From CNN.com: Florida debates lifting some child labor laws to fill jobs vacated by undocumented immigrants

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/25/business/florida-child-labor-laws

#Politics #uspolitics #childlaborlaws #Project2025

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/project-2025-would-exploit-child-labor-by-allowing-minors-to-work-in-dangerous-conditions-with-fewer-protections/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=amprog_en&utm_campaign=default&utm_content=eml+nwl+01+20240719+inprogress-weekly+inp+1+x

#GOP Deploys the “#Mudsill Theory” to Destroy #SocialMobility

Eight Red states have made it easier for children to get trapped in a cycle of work that often ends their educational progress and consigns them to a lifetime of manual labor.

Eight other #Republican-controlled states are currently considering legislation to weaken #ChildLaborLaws, while 13 mostly Democratic-controlled states are in the process of tightening their restrictions

— Meanwhile, Republican-controlled states are waging war against universal quality #PublicEducation for their #Children
#elitism #billionaires @ThomHartmann
https://hartmannreport.com/p/why-the-gop-deploys-the-mudsill-theory-cd8?r=f9bh

This is more common than people realize. Growing up in the US, I worked after school and full time during summer and most weekends starting from around the age of 10.

#ChildLabor #ChildLaborLaws

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/child-labor-laws-wisconsin-sawmill-florence-hardwoods/

#Rollback of #Florida #childlaborlaws gets its first #committee #sealofapproval.

The #bill has received considerable #attention going into the 2024 #regular #legislative #session.

Like in all #committees in a #Legislature with a #Gerrymandered #Republican #supermajority, #Democrats were #handicapped in what they could do to #stop the #proposal.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Florida #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism

https://floridaphoenix.com/2023/12/13/rollback-of-florida-child-labor-laws-gets-its-first-committee-seal-of-approval/