General Discussion

My MIL lasted only a week each time for the two years she tried picking cotton for "shoe money" during the post-war Recession (late 40's) alongside some of her schoolmates, sharecroppers and local jail labor in the local fields
And she was living rural; limited indoor plumbing (grey water only, no indoor toilet), 10 acres of bottom land for a small orchard and sustainance garden, and her Daddy ran a small forge (for nails, hinges, car and cart repair) and a still for, ahem, "medicinal and industrial alcohol".

She was 10/11 years old and used to hard farm work.
Each week she went out picking cotton (2 cents a 20 lb bag, 5 -7 bags a day) she (and her sisters and poorer schoolmates) would universally be laid up for two weeks or so afterwards, waiting on hands, arms, and legs to heal.
She thinks she lost almost 5 layers of skin along with the deep cuts trying to pick enough cotton to get two pair of shoes each year.
And they'd spend that time trying to patch up the clothes that got tore up from the fields along with their normal chores.

That sort of activity was not unusual in the poor South.

The scars on her hands are still there.

That's what the GOP wants to back to. Plantation Economy.