47 Shopping Days until Christmas 0
Early Christmas shopping? Paul Collins explains that the backstory is not what you might think. A nugget:
The December rush on stores, Kelley explained, brought “a bitter inversion of the order of holiday cheer” for overwhelmed clerks and delivery boys. Early shopping was part of Kelley’s crusades for child labor laws and an eight-hour workday, because the last few weeks before Christmas were exactly when overtime and seasonal child labor were most abused.