https://padlet.com/809658/w4gvz4nt8ub7 Khadija Wasif en-us 2019-02-15 13:40:19 UTC 2025-05-15 16:24:26 UTC hello@padlet.com 809658 https://padlet.com/809658/w4gvz4nt8ub7/wish/331718885 Children and adults worked for hours and hours. The newsies received no salary or commission.
They faced a bleak future their prospects dimmed by their lack of education and skills.]]> 2019-02-15 13:42:48 UTC https://padlet.com/809658/w4gvz4nt8ub7/wish/331718885 809658 https://padlet.com/809658/w4gvz4nt8ub7/wish/331721466 On most farms living conditions for temporary workers were miserable.
Migrant children were allowed to attend school but work on the crops came first. Families were crowded into makeshift shacks that had no screens to keep out swarming insects and had no electricity or running water.]]> 2019-02-15 13:48:55 UTC https://padlet.com/809658/w4gvz4nt8ub7/wish/331721466 809658 https://padlet.com/809658/w4gvz4nt8ub7/wish/331722723 Accidents happened all too often.  Many migrant workers were denied health and welfare services. A seven year old child hooked his knee with a beet knife and continued to work. Many others who began the same way found themselves at a dead end.]]> 2019-02-15 13:52:01 UTC https://padlet.com/809658/w4gvz4nt8ub7/wish/331722723 809658 https://padlet.com/809658/w4gvz4nt8ub7/wish/331732961 2019-02-15 14:15:10 UTC https://padlet.com/809658/w4gvz4nt8ub7/wish/331732961 809658 https://padlet.com/809658/w4gvz4nt8ub7/wish/331733724 2019-02-15 14:16:44 UTC https://padlet.com/809658/w4gvz4nt8ub7/wish/331733724