Child Labor

Mother Jones

yes

- No, it's not. Children in child labour have (some) rights and do get paid, but just a little. Whenever the word slavery comes up it means; (simply/almost) no rights, and no payment.

Women were paid cheaper than men were. Children had small hands, so if there was a problem in the machinery they could easily fix it. Many children died because of this, some of these tasks ended up taking off their hands or even hairs and sometimes even scalped them.

At one time child labor was accepted as normal and children started working as young as possible. It brought money into the household.

what groups of people led the fight against child labor inthe united states?

it started when people lost their homes and didnt have anywere to live, so people made them work horrible jobs and in return they would have somewhere to live. The sad thing was that most people would have died from child labour then naturaly dying because the conditions were that harsh.

Denmark does not approve of child labor, and does it's best to stop it.

15 - 18 Depends on the job you want. If you want to work at a local grocery store 15 and 16 to be a bagger, but you'll only be working 9-10 hours a week. Now for a more advanced job, 17 - 18. Trust me I don't know why either.

Your question was answered by:

13 year old Dustin L. Albert of Immokalee, Florida

Society give children extra protection that it does not give to adults, because children are less able to protect themselves, and have often been treated as slaves by their parents or guardians.

In the US, children were not always required by law to go to school until at least the age of 16. Public education was not always available so children went to work as soon as a job was found for them - usually between the ages of six - twelve. Children are inexpensive labor and they are small so, depending on the industry, they would be given jobs that require small hands or bodies that can move quickly. What little money they made was usually given to their parents or guardians.

In some foreign countries children are still used as labor due to the fact that they are inexpensive, but their families could use the money.

Yes there is a huge difference between child labour and child work. Child labour is when a child has no other choice but to work. To either provide for themselves or their family or pay off their parentsdebt. Child work is when they are not forced to work but at their own will. For instance to earn some extra cash or work experience.

government can provide

mid day meals in all the public schools,

free the children

i think the percentage of the child labor in the world is more than 60% since there are many poor countries and there are rich people

children and off course the whole world will suffer in future.

They did reports on it

It affects the whole family because the child's health begans to fail. The child could die, but it usually depends on how hard the work is,but parents would want to be concerned,for a child's health is very important to the parents.

Yup :( sadly...

US law prohibits child labor, and there is no evidence that Hershey violates that law where it applies.

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the question asked is how did child labor exist? To me i am of the view that the underlining path for its existence is poverty and exploitation by affluent people over the less privelage in the society. though many factors contributed to it to escalate the more in recent times to the world attention , wars and our countries economic plannning lack the focused to tackle this sector povertywhich is evil to the economy and denting the image.

CONS: Scarring children for life, living with the fact that a loved one you know is being abused/is abusing a child, deteriorating that child's self-esteem and idea of self-worth, abusing and deteriorating a child's trust and love in the abuser that might have previously connected, etc.

PROS:

Honestly, I don't have a single idea how child abuse could affect anyone positively. I don't think there *are* any pro's to child abuse, period.

Children are made to work against their will, they work over the maximum number of hours and are paid very little or not at all, and fed little or nothing. Child labourers are often abused and hurt during work, and many die.

many jobs were unsafe

All the illegal Immigrants who lost their jobs to children campaigned against child labor.

They want them to go back to the womb where they came from