Child LabourThere is a special part of Hell I'd like to reserve for those arses that order every single Sunday paper. Do you know how heavy that makes the bundle of papers some poor kid (ie me) has to lug around? Funny how your papers always seemed to get mangled in your letterbox...
I loved my paper round, but, looking back, I was getting paid peanuts to ruin my back and cycle around in the cold and dark. How were you exploited as a child?
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chthonic, Fri 17 Feb 2006, 12:05)
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i still havn't worked this one outi would have been about 12- 13, working a 18hr shift (8pm friday night till 2pm saturday afternoon) for 25£ paid in cash. but its not the money or the illigal hours which consern me.
about 15 equally young kids would go to a factory for this shift, bagging white sand, for model railways we were told, by hand into little plastic resealable bags.
if anyone can explain this, hartlebury trading estate around 8-9 years ago.id love to here it.
(, Sat 18 Feb 2006, 14:17, Reply)
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