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In reply to the discussion: Child workers found throughout Hyundai-Kia supply chain in Alabama [View all]marble falls
(59,006 posts)... I had a physical at the city offices. First time I had a hernia check. Shocked that little 14 year old Lutheran. Just me and a very old doctor alone in a closet sized office.
The rules were: no more than four days a week, no more than six hours in one day, no later than 10pm on school nights and no grades under a C.
My summer job was on a truck farm pulling radishes, onions, beets; cutting lettuce, spinach. I made $.30/hr. The next year I got a raise to $.35/hr. this was '63 and '64. In '65 I worked at Bunny Burger and got $1.00/hr.
The truck farm was dangerous - we were around all sorts of chemicals, machinery, tractors and some of us got hurt badly - falling off loaded trucks, Sun poisoning, radish poisoning (a real thing), insect bites.
A couple of years later the laws changed and one had to be 18 or older to work a farm.
I started working construction around 16-17 and used mortar mixers, drove lifts, build scaffolding, carried hods of brick and mortar up scaffling one-handed; all dangerous things. No-one under 18 should have been at it.
I made the transition to University with no regrets. No child should have done most of the work I did when I was that young.
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