Child-Labor Laws Don't Work for Industry - or Anyone Else

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A boy works from dawn to dusk in rural Georgia, and he's only 13 years old. Is this "child labor"? Well, yes, and he loves it. This youngster sells corn and tomatoes at a roadside stand, and he's so proud that the buttons almost pop off his overalls. He reads or plays when there are no customers, and his mother makes him rest after lunch, but otherwise he's selling.

During the course of the summer, he'll earn more than $500 to buy his own school clothes and the new baseball glove he wants. Thank goodness one of his customers isn't Robert Reich, for Reich's Department of Labor is attacking young people's work. In the process, it has fined some illustrious enterprises -- …