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> sticky hairs Reminds me. My ex-wifes grandmother said when she was a little girl her family packed up from tobacco country to California. And her utter joy w
by Gibbon1 7y ago
> sticky hairs
Reminds me. My ex-wifes grandmother said when she was a little girl her family packed up from tobacco country to California. And her utter joy when her mother told her that no they don't grow tobacco in California.
Because picking tobacco is gross and nasty work.
- DanBC 7y agoIt is, and the US still allows child labour in tobacco farming. https://www.hrw.org/video-photos/video/2014/05/13/made-usa-child-labor-tobacco https://www.hrw.org/video-photos/video/2014/05/13/made-usa-c... https://www.hrw.org/report/2015/12/09/teens-tobacco-fields/child-labor-united-states-tobacco-farming https://www.hrw.org/report/2015/12/09/teens-tobacco-fields/c... https://www.hrw.org/report/2014/05/13/tobaccos-hidden-children/hazardous-child-labor-united-states-tobacco-farming https://www.hrw.org/report/2014/05/13/tobaccos-hidden-childr... https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/05/10/dispatches-obama-bans-e-cigarettes-kids-not-child-labor-tobacco-fields https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/05/10/dispatches-obama-bans-e-...
- GordonS 7y agoAs a kid growing up in Scotland I worked picking daffodils in spring and berries in the summer - absolutely back-breaking work, but at least you got to eat your body weight in berries for free! We were paid a pittance based on how much we picked. It wasn't only kids, and was never thought of as "child labour" at the time - I wonder if this is still a thing in the UK?
- DanBC 7y agoIt probably isn't still a thing in the UK, because we now have things like national minimum wage and stronger protections against child labour.