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Children are more replaceable. You can grow another 5-year-old in five years, so if one gets maimed in an accident it's not really a big deal...

You hire children to fit in the tight spaces between the machinery, where a grown man can't go.

It used to be that children were extra hands around the farm, or another hand on the production line. That changed after the Gilded Age due to...

Children are of marginal value as laborers when heavy lifting is required, but they require less food, are easier to cow into submission, can fit...

damn you must have been one wussy twelve year old