Reply to post: Re: Encourage, don't ban child labour

Dear do-gooders, you can't get rid of child labour just by banning it

Commswonk

Re: Encourage, don't ban child labour

"while their parents did the hard manual stuff and the more dangerous stuff (threshing corn with scythes etc.)."

Did "threshing corn with scythes" come from a YouTube video? Not so much dangerous as pointless; scythes were used to cut the corn in the field, not to thresh it afterwards.

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I sometimes worked on a local farm during school holidays; teenage labour rather than "child", but not so long ago that scythes and manual threshing were needed; the combine harvester had been invented, although as often as not the cut grain was tied using a "binder" for threshing back at the farm using a rather antiquated threshing machine.

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