Not that long ago teens went to work at 16 or younger, my mum worked at Cable and Wireless as a telex operator. And the generation before that often started wo

Not that long ago teens went to work at 16 or younger, my mum worked at Cable and Wireless as a telex operator. And the generation before that often started work at 14, I recall chatting with a retired guy who had started work at the GPO as a telegram messenger boy at 14 And in more rural areas of the US they would have worked on the farm from a young age.