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>Child labor was a fact of life throughout all human history. Children worked in much more horrible conditions than what preceeded this era.
No, actually, they factually did not. Children helping out on the farm is not the same as working in a sweatshop or working on a steam powered loom.
>Capitalism destroyed child labor.
No, if anything populism did. The era you are extolling was immediately followed by the Progressive Era, which was characterized by trust busting, big government, and worker's protections. People elected people like Teddy Roosevelt because they were sick of getting sick from bad medicine and their kids getting maimed in factories.