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Labour law: Media

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Code of Hammurabi
Diorite stela inscribed with the Code of Hammurabi, 18th century bce.
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A young spinner in Yazoo City
Overseer supervising a girl (about 13 years old) operating a bobbin-winding machine...
National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division (LC-DIG-nclc-02093)
Lord Beveridge
Lord Beveridge.
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