Generally the goal is to let meat packers and factories employ kids legally because they’re doing it illegally now. They do make good employees in these context

Generally the goal is to let meat packers and factories employ kids legally because they’re doing it illegally now. They do make good employees in these contexts with their small bodies. But it’s also precisely the sort of dangerous job that we reformed. The fact there’s people still trying to get kids to clean bone saws and likewise legally is galling. There’s a certain conservative strain that thinks The Jungle was just good business.