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In this week's analysis, Fran Abrams asks, what's wrong with child labour?

1980, a steakhouse near Stockport.

Bernays, sauce, gammonon, pineapple, creperape Susette. The place was regarded by its manager as the height of

sophistication. When I walked through that door as a 17-year-old waitress, I thought I'd arrived. But after a series of calamities, which included

tipping chicken Spanish into a customer's lap, I was sacked. But actually, I learned a lot from that first disastrous excursion into the labour market.

I learned that just because you're on track for university it doesn't necessarily mean you can cut it in the real world

and I got a brief taste of the sense of pride that can come with taking on

adult responsibility even in a job you're not very good at.

So I wonder, as youth unemployment rises and adolescent seems to stretch longer and longer,

whether today's teenagers aren't missing out on something.

My dad is working, I don't need to work.

My parents give money all days, every day.

Five, ten pounds a day.

It would be good to have a job, but right now I want to focus on schoolwork and

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