Agriculture
There are 13 million children in South Africa that are employed as child laborers. Children are employed as young as five years old in South Africa.
Child labor was a staple of the American Industrial Revolution. It is estimated that approximately 1.75 million children were employed during this time period, although the true figure is not known.
There are about 19 million children in Africa, and 2.1 million of them are victims to child trafficking.
There are 218 million child labourers in the world today.
44.6 million children
The answer regarding the number of children working in factories in the US during the industrial revolution cannot be substantiated at all. No one was taking count, and workers were able to leave factories and work on farms.
many jobs were unsafe
The Keating–Owen Child Labor Act of 1916 also known as Wick's Bill, was a short-lived statute enacted by the U.S. Congress which sought to address child labor by prohibiting the sale in interstate commerce of goods produced by factories that employed children under fourteen, mines that employed children younger than ...
Norma Odom Pecora has written: 'The business of children's entertainment' -- subject(s): Children's paraphernalia, Child consumers, Motion pictures and children, Children's clothing industry, Television advertising and children, Toy industry, Advertising
The affect the investigations of child labor had on the industry proved that the children whether an apprentice child or a free labor child, had long working and monotonous hours which led to accidents as the children became sleepy, bored, or careless. Many children in the factories and mines lost their lives when they were mangled by machinery and mine explosions. In spite of the hazards of using children, the employers found them very useful and cheap.
around 158 million children aged 5-14 work worldwide
The average Australian family has 1.65 children. This does not mean that they have .65 of a child, just that slightly more people have 2 children than 1 child.