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Child exploitation in business started well before the Industrial Revolution but, 100 years ago, labor unions and progressive Democrats compelled Congress to enact worker protections many of us ...

Child labor has never been a particularly pretty part of society, but during the industrial revolution, the practice became even uglier than its earlier incarnations. Children were often put in ...