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8 “I arrive at the factory. The sight that I dread to see meets my eyes: the line
of unemployed people waiting for the boss to come and hoping for work.”
9 Kids who were able to stay in school found a variety of part-time jobs.
They were employed as newspaper carriers, babysitters, store clerks, and
delivery boys. One boy from a hard-pressed Michigan home delivered
newspapers in the afternoon, ushered at a theater in the evening, and
worked at a gas station on weekends. He also helped his mother at home
while his father was away searching for a job. A North Carolina girl went
to school mornings and worked at the local cotton mill in the evenings
“because I wanted to help my parents and not be a burden to them.”
A young worker at a cotton mill in Taftville, Connecticut
“I wanted to help my parents
and not be a burden to them.”
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