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Podcast: Belabored
Episode: Belabored: Child Labor, Child Strikes, with Jack Hodgson
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When you hear the words “child labor,” your mind may go to the turn-of-the-century photographs taken by Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine of the grim lives of tiny laborers toiling in mines and urban sweatshops. Or you may think about the children in Africa or South Asia who dig...