I am a fan of reading occasional economic histories. They are amazingly fascinating (really, just fascinating, but even I would expect them to be boring, yet they are not, thus the amazing). However, not a whole lot has been produced as of late. Nevertheless, there is talk that there will be a resurgence in economic [...]
From VoxEU by Jane Humphries:
Child labour: lessons from the Industrial Revolution
Societies have long sought to eliminate child labour. Yet two hundred years after the first Factories Act and despite a level of prosperity that our forefathers would have deemed unimaginable, there are an estimated 186 million child labourers worldwide –5.7 million in forced labour, 1.8 [...]
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