Tax the Rich to Defeat the Horrors of Child Labor: What Americans Today Can Learn From Felix Adler
working at 62 stores in four different states. Some of these under-working age children were working as late as 2 am.
“We have sheltered our kids so much they’ve forgotten how to do one of the things we’re all training them to do,”Amid this rush to undo protections for kids,analysis, pending legislation that would “crack down on companies’ use of child labor has gone nowhere.” “We have sheltered our kids so much they’ve forgotten how to do one of the things we’re all training them to do,”Over a century ago, in the initial push against child labor, no American did more to protect kids from sophistry like that than the noted educator and philosopher Felix Adler, the founder of the Ethical Culture movement. In 1887, under that society’s auspices, AdlerThe “evil of child labor,” Adler related to some 1,500 onlookers, “is growing to an alarming extent.
“Child labor is cheap labor,” Adler would explain. “That thought never enters the mind of the cheap labor employer. Business is business.”But Felix Adler didn’t just campaign for laws to limit child labor. Lawmakers must also, he believed, limit the incentives that drive employers to exploit kids. They must refuse to let the rich keep as much as they could grab—by using taxes tothe incomes of America’s most financially favored.
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