In the 19th century it was common to use child labor in heavy work, and one afternoon Owen stopped at a coal mine where an undernourished twelve-year-old boy was lugging a heavy sack of bricks.
Au XIXe siècle, il était courant de recourir à la main-d’œuvre enfantine dans des travaux pénibles, et un jour Owen s’est arrêté dans une mine de charbon, où un gamin de douze ans portait un lourd sac de minerai.
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