Figure 1.--This photo was taken by Marie Queen of Romania for a book published in 1916. ,The photograph shows a shepherd boy. He is wearing a characteristic shaggy mantle, made of skins taken from sheep. This coat cover him from the head to his bare feet.

We do not have much information about children working in Romania. The country was a largely rural country until after World War II. Thus most working children would have been found in rural areas on a range of farm jobs. Some children may have worked on estates, but many large estates were broken up as part of land reform programs. Even if not the children of estate woirkers, rural childen would have done a range of chores for their parents. We are less sure about the experience of urban children.

Sources

Queen My Country (Hodder and Stoughton: London - New York - Toronto, 1916).

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