The Psychopathology Of Everyday

In 1909 a factory inspector did an informal survey of 500 working children in 20 factories. She found that 412 of them would rather work in the terrible conditions of the factories than return to school.

— Helen Todd, Why Children Work, McClure’s Magazine (April 1913)

In one experiment in Milwaukee, for example, 8,000 youths [...] were asked if they would return full-time to school if they were paid about the same wages as they earned at work; only 16 said that they would. [p.215 →]

— David Tyack, Managers of Virtue (1982)