Child Labor And the Work of Mothers in Oyster And Shrimp Canning Communities On the Gulf Coast
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A girl of 11 was needed at home to care for a 2-year-old baby while her mother worked in a cannery to eke out the father's average earnings of $5.35 a week. "If my man was alive," commented one mother, "I'd send all my children to school." The 10-year-old boy in this family went to night school three nights a week, paying 50 cents a week for tuition. "But it costs too much; I can't send him much longer," said the mother. In another family the children, aged 13 and 11, went to school regularly u...ntil their father died, when they had to help in the support of the family. In another instance a woman wanted her 15-year-old grandson to continue school, but she was unable to buy him the necessary " third reader." A bright boy of 12 in the seventh grade was forced to drop out of the parochial school in December. He worked during the day and went to night school three nights a week. " He is a smart boy," his mother said, "and if I could afford it I'd keep him in school." The mother of three children — aged 13, 10, and 7 — who went to school last year, was not able to send them this year.
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