thirteen-year-olders

Updated: July 7, 2025

The improving mechanism of our State School System assists this movement, by turning out every year a larger percentage of half- timers, crammed to qualify for wage-earners at the earliest possible period. Already in Lancashire and elsewhere, the labour of these thirteen-year-olders is competing with the labour of their fathers.

J. A. (John Atkinson) Hobson - Problems of Poverty