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Monday, September 2, 2013

Labor Day 2013

Girls working in a box factory

Child Labor in the United States

Farmington

…the reported injury and illness rate for meatpacking was a staggering 20 per hundred full-time workers in 2001…

…OSHA administrators and independent researchers have found a common corporate practice [in the meatpacking industry] of underreporting injuries of all kinds. One recent estimate puts the undercount of nonfatal occupational injuries across industrial sectors as high as 69 percent.“

Coal miners

[Massey Energy] amassed more than 1,100 violations in the past three years, many of them serious. Federal regulators even ordered parts of the mine closed 60 times over the past year.

Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

1911 Triangle Factory Fire and the 146 people, many of them teenage and young women, who lost their lives.

Christ Church Mass Grave

The median personal income from farm work and other work sources combined was between $5,000 and $7,500.

Chimney Sweep

 

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