Child Labour In America

People probably think, what is the reason that causes child labor. As the result, the reason of child labor is poverty, illiteracy, early married parents, war and disaster. Children from poor family might be forced to support and work for their parents. Illiteracy, In the developing countries, due to lack of employment opportunities or education, children may be work in factory to provide food and clothing for family, instead of attending school. Also, war and disasters will fuel child labor. In conflict and disasters, parents may lose their jobs and school might be destroyed, children may be forced to start work. In Afghanistan, years of armed conflicts have fueled poverty and child labor, at least a quarter of Afghanistan's 5 to 14-year-olds work to raise their families but they usually working long hours with little or no pay. A 15-year-old Afghan boy's brother and sister were working since they are five. They had been working in brick making, to clean the ground, take a shovel and pick a pickaxe, everyone is at work.

Child labor is severely harmful to the children working. The definition of child labor is work done by a child (under 18 years old) that is harmful to the child’s health and development and probably interferes with their

Child labor can distract kids from their education, causing them to fail classes and even drop out of school due to they think work is more important then homework or schooling. Kids education is what molds them into the adult citizens their parents want them to be and what they wanted to be when they were younder. Childern in the workforse cause it to come between children and them pressing their dreams to their fullest capability. For exampe in the book fast food nation kids work 8 hour shifts on top of their education causing them to take on double what an adult does, therefor they dont have enough hours in the day to get everything like their school work done. Child labor effects children in their education for a present an a feature matter.

What is child labor? And how bad has it gotten over the years?  According to the author of the   " Opposing View Points on Child Labor " It’s known throughout the years that child labor was a common thing. "Child Labor is a problem of immense and economic proportions in many developing regions of the world today"(Hugh D Hindman 233). In some places children working alongside their parents to provide was usual. Children were put to work in factories and mines in the Industrial Revolution. Kids young as six worked up to sixteen hours a day. Even some where beat by the bosses if they didn't do anything right or were to fall asleep on the job. They often work in horrible conditions, like operating dangerous machinery or other dangerous tasks. In 1802, Britain's factory Act made it so children nine to thirteen can work no more than eight hours per day. And the ages fourteen and up can work to twelve hours per day.

Poverty seems to be the leading cause of child labor, followed by lack of education in most

First of all, what is child labor? It is the employment of children where they are

Child labour is when a person has power over many children and they use it towards their benefit such as businesses, especially when illegal or considered exploitative. The Worldwide Labor Organization evaluates that 215 million children’s that are between the ages of 5 and 17 currently work under conditions that are regarded as illegal, unsafe, or to an exploitative.

Child labor in India is causing human rights of children to be violated. Child labor is the illegal use of children in a business or organization. Child labor is inhumane and is a human rights violation because it takes away the childhood experience and forces them to do work that is harmful to their bodies and to their minds. In India, there are approximately 1.3 billion people and other problems in the country are making it hard for the government to find time to make a solution to illegal child labor. The child labor in India is the result of debt bondage from families, kidnappings, lack of education, and lack of government intervention.

“all forms of slavery or practices similar to slavery, such as the sale and trafficking of children, debt bondage and serfdom and forced or compulsory labour, including forced or compulsory recruitment of children for use in armed conflict, is child labor. Child labour refers to the employment of children in any work that deprives children of their childhood, interferes with their ability to attend regular school, and that is mentally, physically, socially or morally dangerous and harmful. To be politically correct.”-Child-Labor-Facts-and-Statistics

    Child labor is something that has been utilized in almost every civilization and had no regulation up until the last century. Children would complete any tasks their family deemed fit including but not limited to: farming on their families’ land, farming for other farmers, hunting and gathering food, and craftsman work. Then, when the Industrial Revolution came, children as young as 5-years-old,  were forced to work long hours in factories because they could fit into small places and did not demand as much pay as an adult. (History.com Staff, 2009) As time passed, the United States and other

Child labor is a problem all around the globe, but it mostly affects underage workers in developing countries. Child labor is considered full-time

Child labour is work that children should not be allowed to do because they do not meet the age requirements, or if the age requirements are met, because of danger and potential harm they could cause themselves. A child working cannot be classified child labor simply because a child is performing the task. Children or young adults working, as long as it does not stop them of receiving a good education, cause harm to their bodies, or stunt their development, is viewed as something healthy and

Furthermore, the reason why child labour is an issue around the ‘work’ is because of the detrimental effects the working conditions and work has on the child’s development into their real career. Children in the workforce are not being treated as children they are essentially salves. They work inhumane hours, are starved until a job is done or not fed at all, beaten and abused for being tired or not performing at their regular capacity (Srivastava, 2012). But this is okay as many workers or labour’s suggest because we need their tiny hands and they are faster at getting the job done. However, their childhood is stripped from them as they miss out on going to school and forced into the labour force. These children are experiencing intense fast paced work, that they are not ready for (Gamlin et al., 2015). The children are also severally hindered in their brain development as they are being abused

Child labour is the practice of having children engage in economic activity, on part or full-time basis. The practice deprives children of their childhood, and is harmful to their physical and mental development. Poverty, lack of good schools and growth of informal economy are considered as the important causes of child labour in India.

Child labour is the employment of children as wage earners. It became a serious social problem during the Industrial Revolution in Britain during the 1700's, and the problem spread to other countries as they became industrialized. The problem first began when children, many below the age of 10, were employed by factories and mines. The children were forced to work long hours under dangerous and unhealthy conditions, and their wages were very