{"id":133371,"date":"2020-07-26T11:34:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-26T19:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=133371"},"modified":"2020-07-26T11:34:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T19:34:00","slug":"boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=133371","title":{"rendered":"Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jack writes<\/a>: The term persists in the name \u201cbusboy\u201d which is still used. Because of child labor laws, menial jobs that were once done by children or young teens (e.g. bellboy, shoe shine boy) are now done by full grown adults but the \u201cboy\u201d description still sometimes attaches. In other cases (\u201cball boy\u201d) the job is still done by children (though often nowadays by girls).<\/p>\n

Naturally, being the lowest skilled, the grown men who replaced children in these menial jobs were often black but the job title was still \u201cboy\u201d \u2013 there was no racial angle. In the old days, IQ was sometimes express as mental age, so it\u2019s not surprising that a job once done by a white 12 year old would become one that a black 16+ year old was capable of in the age of child labor laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jack writes: The term persists in the name \u201cbusboy\u201d which is still used. Because of child labor laws, menial jobs that were once done by children or young teens (e.g. bellboy, shoe shine boy) are now done by full grown … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21791],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t