Welcome, friends, to another edition of Economic Update, a weekly program devoted to the

economic dimensions of our lives and those of our children. I'm your host, Richard Wolfe. I want to remind you that we

have a volunteer, Charlie Fabian, who is ready and willing to take suggestions, clippings, ideas you have

for segments on this program. You have been doing it. We have been going over them, and we have gotten a lot of benefit from

them. So please continue. Here's his email. Charlie.com.438 at gmail.com. Once again,

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Today's program is going to cover child labor and its resurgence here in the United States,

the remarkable decision of college athletes to become unionized starting at Dartmouth

College, no less, and the kind of strikes that are hitting 501C3, charitable

organizations, museums, art centers, and so on, because that's an enormously important

phenomena also sweeping the United States. And then in the second half of the program, we're going to be examining the relationship

between capitalism and capitalists on the one hand and the control and organization

of political power in the United States and in other countries and see how that shows the importance of the power

discussions in modern society. Okay, let's jump right in. Child labor is an old problem

of capitalism. Wherever capitalism has settled in, it has done so by exploiting

children. In the early days of Britain's capitalism, where modern capitalism really began,

back in the 17th, 18th century, child labor was common. Much of the literature is about it.

Those of you that remember the novels of Charles Dickens are full of the labor of children.

Then, over time, as capitalism spreads to other parts of the world, child labor is almost always

part of the story.

To this day, there are child labor violations all over, parts of the world where capitalism

is relatively new, parts of Asia, Africa, Latin America, in particular.

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