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Putting young people to work prematurely may be a loss to industry itself, destroying their free labour quality
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- Jane Addams American social reformer and founder of Hull House (1860 to 1935)
We may gradually discover that in the interests of this industrial society of ours it becomes a distinct loss to put large numbers of producers prematurely at work, not only because the community inevitably loses their mature working power, but also because their “free labor quality,” which is so valuable, is permanently destroyed.
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↗Newer Ideals of Peace (1906)gutenberg.org
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