Family Farm

Marjorie Elizabeth Wood’s Op-Ed in the New York Times Pitting Child Safety Against the Family Farm brings the conversation about children working in agriculture back to the core of the recent battle that ensued after the Department of Labor proposed changes to the hazardous orders to protect children employed in agriculture. Due to political pressure, the DOL decided not to pursue the changes. Ms. Wood’s Op-Ed reminds readers of the long history of excluding children from agriculture reform based upon the argument of infringing on the “family farm.”