The Worst Children's Jobs in History
- ISBN-10
- 1447237064
- ISBN-13
- 9781447237068
- Category
- Child labor
- Pages
- 104
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012
- Author
- Tony Robinson
Description
Tony Robinson takes you on a guided tour through all the lousiest places for a kid to work. With profiles and testimonies of real kids in rotten jobs, this title will tell you things you probably didn't want to know.
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