Pitting Child Safety Against the Family Farm
Efforts to reform agricultural child labor laws have repeatedly been beaten back as supposed threats to the rural way of life.
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Efforts to reform agricultural child labor laws have repeatedly been beaten back as supposed threats to the rural way of life.