Not just legal but encouraged.
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homes@piefed.world 9 hours agoYes, the 1800s… When it was perfectly legal to put newborn babies to work in the coal-mining sweat shops of South London
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 9 hours ago
homes@piefed.world 9 hours ago
Encouraged by all the starvation and pestilence
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 8 hours ago
They yearn for the mines after all
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 8 hours ago
I think it reminds them of the womb.
sneakypersimmon@lemmy.today 9 hours ago
Kids as young as 4 years old would be put to work, so it’s not that far off really.