A sixfold increase in real wages made children more expensive in terms of forgone opportunities to work and increases in agricultural productivity reduced rural demand for labor, a substantial portion of which traditionally had been performed by children in farm families.
实际工资增加了六倍，使得儿童失去工作机会的成本更高，农业生产率的提高减少了农村对劳动力的需求，其中很大一部分传统上是由农村家庭的儿童完成的。