Child labor is not a relic of the past. For Teen Vogue, filossofee investigates the glaring violations and inconsistencies of child labor laws that are putting young people across the country at risk in more ways than one. ⬇️
Child labor is not a relic of the past.While most kids looked forward to summer break, José Velázquez Castellano did not.
An undocumented immigrant and the son of a single mother who had immigrated to the US from Mexico at age 17, Castellano spent his summers working in the scorching-hot fields of North Carolina. When he was eight, he took a job picking blueberries. By his teens, Castellano had moved on to picking tobacco to pay for new school supplies.
On the farm, workers were paid by the bucket, which Castellano and his fellow child farmworkers struggled to carry. The days were long and, he tellswhen he got home from the tobacco fields his body was so weary he couldn’t bring himself to go outside and play. His feet, he recalls, felt like “concrete bricks.”, which can cause vomiting, dizziness, and breathing problems. But even his meager $7/hour salary helped his mom, also a farmworker, pay the bills.
Children were treated no differently than adults, Castellano recalls, and even then, at his young age, he understood that no kid should be forced to work under the conditions he faced. “I knew immediately that I should not have been there. But I also knew that if I wasn't, who was going to help my mother pay?” Castellano explains. “It was a dilemma: You're not supposed to be there, but if you're not there, then you're losing out on the money.
Agricultural work, like the kind Castellano did, is a glaring exception to US child labor laws outlined in the
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