Child Labor was a Ghastly Result of the Industrial Revolution

Children in India are being forced to work many hours a day for very little pay. More than 20 % of India’s economy are child workers under the age of 14. This is a problem they operate on deadly machines and they can be harmed. They also are exposed to bad working environments and can be injured or killed. If the refuse to work they are threatened or beaten. This a problem and this needs to stop because children have the right to a child hood. (Dougall,

Child Labor is where kids are sold away from the parents to work for other people and keeps the kids' from attending school.But also the work the kids have to do can harm them.Some works that they do is illicit activities like drug trades,serving as a soldiers and fishing and mining and lastel is agriculture. But also some of the most of the child labor work occurs in agriculture,fishing,and forestry.The International Labor Organization estimates there are about 215 million kids at the ages of 5 and 17 working under conditions, according www.continuetolearn.uiowa.edu. They also say that the most places that child labor occurs in is Asia,Pacific,and the Latin Americans and the Sub

During the late and early eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Great Britain started to industrialize. When the industrial revolution started the history of child labour changed fiercely. Children of all ages were forced to work in some of the worst known conditions known to man. These poor children would work for hours and hours on end only ending up with only the smallest amount of pay. They would return to work each day for month and months just to save up for enough money to get a good education for themselves. I will be researching on how so many kids ended up working in factories and what it was like to work in them. I will then discuss some of the comparisons of child labour these days.

“India has the largest work force of children in the world. They are made to work as shares in fields and factories in homes and in cottage industries. They are deprived of their childhood. Children are also self-employed as shoeshine, milk boys, rag pickers and rickshaw pullers. They are overworked and under paid. They miss the benefits of education” (R. H. Waghamode, J. L. Kalyan). Many children suffer from the age of child to adulthood as they become exhausted and usually deformed from working from a child because kids work jobs from stone quarries, in the streets to working in the fields or hidden in another house that often makes them do domestic chores. Child labor in India has a common cause why they use children because it is a socioeconomic problem with India having illiteracy, poverty and other issues that fuel child labor. With the continuation of child labor, India continues to be one of the prominent country that utilizes children to work.

It is estimated that over 246 million kids between the ages of 5 and 15 around the world are labouring every day for long hours. Most of these children work on farms that produce consumer products such as cocoa, coffee, cotton, rubber and other crops.

It is estimated that 186 million kids are currently engaged in child labor. around (85 million) of these children have been defined to work in dangerous conditions. http://www.ilo.org These children must endure things that harm them in so many ways both physically and mentally. These can lead to life-time problems or even death.

Child Labor steals the childhood from the children. I am interested in child labor research because I personally experience it. When I lived in Nepal, I worked in a nut factory, and I was only in the fifth grades due to the financial problem. Many kids worked in hotels, in the house, and polished shoes to survive and to support their family, and some of my friends carried loads in building construction. I am curious to know how poverty increases the child labor and how it affects children’s dreams. I suspect the children’s side effect of doing adult’s work. I want to know does working as underage causes the lack of education and poor health issue. I had many questions about child labor, and I did research about how does Child

Worldwide child labor originated during the Industrial Revolution first in England then the U.S.; many families sent their children to work or else they could not survive because they were poor and many hazardous jobs at the time were considered appropriate for children, even though now many people (but not enough) know better. Everyone had the belief that children should be working and no one was concerned if they didn’t get a formal education, an ideology that has somehow become instilled in the minds of many “employers” of these children today without any moral question or concern. Now, children are used as cheap and efficient labor capital by governments and corporations around the world and it is a direct human rights violation that could be easily avoided. Currently, 168 - 215 million children internationally are involved in child labor, and 85 million of those children are in hazardous work. Out of all the children currently working, 98 million of them work in agriculture (59%), 54 million work in services, and 12 million work in industries. Both services and industries are counted in the informal sector of the economy, and child labor plays an extremely large part in the economies of impoverished countries where it is extremely hard to break the poverty cycle because of this particular human rights violation.

Child laborers are employed everywhere in the world, places like Asia and Africa have a high population of juvenile workers. Sadly the number of exploited adolescents continues to grow. In India minor’s labor makes up 3.6% of it’s entire workforce (LaborAwareness). In addition, about 85% of those children are employed in jobs that involve agricultural work. India is one of the worst examples of child labor abusers. India only represents a minute number. However, world-wide 218 million children between the ages of 5 and 17 are working today (LaborAwareness). Countries like the United States may seem like they would completely abhor the use of child employment, but they are more commonly associated with it than one may think.

Child labor is not new to North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, basically every part of the world inhabited by people (Herumin 10). Child labor is not something people noticed until the rise of the industrial revolution, where new advancements in manufacturing increased the demand for workers, mainly children because of their ability to reach in small spaces (Herumin 20). Child labor involves children under the age of 18 who work in terrible, dangerous conditions for long hours with little to no pay (Herumin 10). These conditions leave scars, physical and psychological ones including deadly diseases and injuries, loneliness, isolation, IQ reduction and more (WHO). The effects are infinite, endless. Many of the reasons why child labor is still a problem today is because of poverty, lack of education, overpopulation, and lack of awareness - factors India is greatly displaying (Bolla). Bolla also explains that child labor continues to be a problem in India because of its previous use of a caste system. Most people weren’t rich, so the majority of children had to work to help the family survive instead of going to school and learning how to read and write (Bolla).

Child Labour Elimination and Education: According to the 2001 Indian census, 29 percent of the country’s children, ages 6 to 14, did not attend any educational institution. Moreover, the incidence of child labour increased 9% in 10 years between the 1991 census and 2001 census from 11.59 million to 12.66 million. However, because the census figures did not include children engaged in the agricultural and domestic sectors, many groups maintained that the number of child workers was significantly higher.

Children labor has many causes which must be overcome to avoid it's fatal effects on the community and the whole country.The first and the main cause is the poverty and unemployment as the poor families and their children may depend on child labor to improve their living conditions and there are many poor people across the world, so this problem is widespread according to U.N. statistics more than 25% of people in the wold live in poverty(2005),then the second cause is that the chance to have a free education is limited and this is because countries and governments don't care enough for free education to help those who aren't able to afford

With approximately 1.2 billion children throughout the world between the ages ten and nineteen, an estimated 186 million are child laborers, going to workplaces instead of school (Srivastava). Illegal child labor is a widespread issue that has been depriving underage children of their essential education, as it politically and socially affects children in third world countries. Generally, there are children from ages five to seventeen, who would work in prohibited employments to support their poor families, with poverty as a major cause of the difficulty. On various occasions, children would work long hours in places such as factories and restaurants, receiving less pay and loosing their education. Despite efforts made by the authorities to prevent it, children continue to work excessive hours, receiving low wages and remaining in unsanitary conditions. Child labor is an obstacle, as children sacrifice their education, childhood, and their potential to succeed, hindering them from improving with a better lifestyle. Illegal child labor may be an adversity for many, yet there are solutions that could pacify the situation, including enforcing laws, an increased minimum wage amount, and providing more educational opportunities.

The prevalence of child labour is a blot on society. It is a national disgrace that millions of children in this country have to spend a major part of their daily routine in hazardous works. The problem of child labour in India is the result of traditional attitudes, urbanisation, industrialisation, migration, lack of education, etc. However, extreme poverty is the main cause of child labour. However, this miracle idea falls short after identifying the brutal cons that develop along with Child Labour. Youth are weak and can be susceptible to damage especially with the demanding jobs of a factory. Simply stating, a child will wilt when put to work with hard tasks that occur in factories. Just imagine how this effect to continue onto the descendants of this child. The business of Child Labour where children must succumb to the control of atrocious lifestyles, which, with unstable governments immerse a child in the hazardous struggle of unsafe workstations, poor wages, and an immeasurable negative affect on its mind.

Child labour has many repercussions for the children, for their families and for the society as a whole. The harmful effects of child labour can be seen in inadequate physical development, various illnesses and deformities, damage to their central nervous system, impoverishment of their mental faculties and indulgence in immoral acts. Family of the working child suffers the economic loss in the long run and loses social bonds and ties within family which may ultimately lead to family disorganisation. This survey focuses upon some specific dimensions of child labour like wages and hours of work of the child labourers in Agra district of the U.P. state of India. Total 500 child workers were chosen as respondents and Interview