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yeah not gonna be "old" days for long. they've already started laxing restrictions on several states.
Kentucky just allowed 12 year olds to work for nonprofits 18 hours a week.
I'm sure through grit and hard work they managed to get rich in later life.
the most loyal and obedient slaves are the slaves who think they're free
Some LinkedIn lunatic has probably used this image for their daily motivational post.
It's likely their pain ended much sooner
The children yearn for the mines.
Mining in particular was the beginning of a lot of unionization movements. People tend to think of hisroiv mining right leaning but they were pretty hard left and pushed hard to worker rights. Mining now is much more right leaning, which is pretty unfortunate.
https://open.spotify.com/track/4abZVfTVIKhVKazN3j6ROU?si=3uUp0ERfQ2eTzXv-oFk-Eg
Right leaning tends to happen over time as a generation or two forgets about how bad things used to be for them.
Is this back when America was great?
These kids are draining the swamp.
Using their bare hands as shovels from what it looks like
Exploitation begins at home!
the ferengi would be so proud of our civilization
Those are some hard eyes. Seven years old going on 40.
What has happened to their hands?
I actually know a bit of backstory about this photo - it was a series on child labor in the south, and these are photos of oyster shuckers for the Maggioni Canning Co. around 1911.
I'm assuming shucking oysters are rough on the hands, so it could be wounds, but it also looks like crusted-on dirt, so I'm not sure.
Here's another photo where you can see their hands a bit better:
And here's the original untouched photo:
I just wanted to add about the stares. Photos back then required the target to be very still ao they are just probably trying their best to keep still.
Most photos of children failed because they moved. These were very still, hence the tension in their eyes, or just a lucky shot. Anyways, photos from way back always look like death for this reason.
This is a hilarious photo of they weren't in such conditions.
If it isn't AI (geeze have to question everything now), I would hazard a guess that it could be various injuries from textile machines or something.
It could also be just standard "major ouchies incurred as children" but grew back oddly due to lack of access to medical care.
This image has been around a long time, it’s not AI. The girls are (IIRC) oyster shuckers. So hand injuries are gonna be a thing.
Didn't even notice that at first. All I could see were the thousand-yard stares
Unsure if AI image, or product of horrific work environment....
not a.i. ... check the comment from @hoch
Serves them right for not forming a union.
"The real cause of poverty is too much labor regulation!"
Now this is pro life!