Instead, he began helping his father with back-breaking work on their farm, until he met a community outreach volunteer who told them about a program, ACCESS-Plus, that would help him complete his education.
The many family homesteads, barns and cleared fields, all completed with back-breaking work in varying stages of decay, I feel compelled to document what remains". Neal's dramatic images, rendered from his Zone VI 4x5 field camera, clearly intrigued those who attended Friday's reception including Burbank pottery artist Ellisa Weekley whose father was a photographer.
Today, an estimated 168 million children around the world are trapped in child labor, with about half working in hazardous conditions, performing back-breaking work, in dangerous heat, with insufficient protections, inadequate breaks, and lacking the physical abilities to meet the demands of work that is truly meant for adults.
It also dulled pain, quelled appetites, blurred time and relaxed muscles, making it equally desirable for coolies, manual labourers who spent long, desperate hours engaged in back-breaking work with minimal food.
Mechanisation, coupled with a desire to escape back-breaking work in the fields, prompted the first wave of emigration, between the 1940s and the 1970s.More recently local factories have been closing, overcome by foreign competition.
Like many intellectuals of the era, Keng's father – a pastor who was given his piano by an American – was sent to the countryside to perform back-breaking work with the peasants.
But filling vans with paper and scrap metal can be back-breaking work and, apparently, not very lucrative either.
Soon they would want better lives with more adventure and romance and less back-breaking work and death.
Needing to come up with money for cram school, he finds better-paying, back-breaking work in the country's periphery, where he assists a well digger by day.
Weatherspoon, 74, told HuffPost she and her husband maintained a back-breaking work schedule to keep up with payments on their home.
Big Brown had found that even though it selected its drivers with great care, turnover was uncomfortably high, mainly because drivers hated the back-breaking work of loading the trucks in the morning.
