CO129-473 - Individuals - 1921 — Page 231

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tin child labour. The muitoai systein may be attributable to the same economic reasons necessitated child labour, but is not the cause of it.

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necessarily

child labour would Exist in China with or without the mui trai system:

: own children have to work,

still younger ones, bearing burdens or baking charge of

chat from the earliest ponible moment. Even before moment, the child's flay _ directly, it can leave the mother's back & can stand on it's own feet wch the mother's side, imitating her work; a braining. of which the mother is ready to avail herself, (undred is almost forced to avail herself) from the instant tive the child's strength is equal to the carrying of bricks Broadly, the sui trai is the domestic servant: the child seen working at the mother's aide in the streets or on the fields

the fields is the nectural responsibility, which the mother would often be too glas to escape, for the child's sake as well as her own, by finding it a home as

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