Underage Workers In Third World Countries

During the late 1800’s and the early 1900’s child labor was a social issue that developed in the United States. In the early 1900’s, so many children ages 16 and under were working in American mine and factories. Our kids should not be forced to work at such an early age, they need education and a good childhood that they will always remember. Some children that are as young as 4 years old are being forced to work in crammed, dangerous factories. These factories are full of poisonous fumes and diseases that can obviously kill. Kids as young as 13 are being forced to work around 13 hours a day. Working these 13 hours is exactly what most adults are working at the time. Kids are also earning a lower wage since they are minors, employers

Children are being robbed of their childhood by corporations, that do not care about them. These corporations turn a blind eye towards the dissatisfying life, that is led by these children. They do not care about the children's education or the manner in which they grow up, and they expose them to harsh physical labor and unsatisfactory pay. These children are robbed of the years in which they should lead a normal child's life, and they don't get to truly enjoy being a child. These children are exposed to unhealthy situations to both the body and the mind,situations that a child should not be involved in. They are often unable to pursue proper academic studies, because of their jobs, and this could be because they aren't allowed to study, or simply that the lifestyle they lead doesn't allow them to study. On the other hand, children working at a younger age helps them shape an appreciation for hard work, and they learn to value money and time. Working at an early age also helps shape the economy of the third world countries that these children work

“ In 1900, 18 percent of all American workers were under the age of 16.”(Foner) Child labor is a terrible thing that children have to go through. Although this was not considered a problem because of how normal it was.(Foner.). But due to the work of investigative journalist children today no longer have to worry about working in these dangerous environments.

“Each year, as many as 2.7 million healthy years of life are lost due to child labor.” Imagine that you are being held as a slave and forced to do dangerous labor as a child. Countless people are being held captive and are being forced to do perilous things, sweating their lives away, not taking breaks, and being put in adult like situations. In fact right now there are “15-20 million children working as slaves.” Although it provides children and families with money, and possibly something to learn from, adolescents should not be enslaved or forced to do labor because it is very dangerous and can damage a minor for the rest of their life.

Many started young, others started in their teens, while the rest don’t know the experience. Each individual may know at least someone else who’s been or still is in this category. Past years, it was an issue but now in days it’s not as common as it was before in time. Child Labor, child labor is what kept children from attending school or even harmed them in variety of ways. They’d get what is called minimum waged, not enough money. It’d harm their way of thinking and also emotional wise. Some would say that even illness was involved with these children or worse, injuries. Owners wouldn’t have bit sympathy for the occurrence, as long as they had their job done at the end of the day.

There have been many major reform movements about child labor since the Industrial Revolution. One of the most important major reforms is the age limit in child labor. During the Industrial Revolution, around 18 percent of American workers were under the age of 16; however, today it’s illegal to employ children under the age of 15 at most workplaces. This is a drastic change due to the fact that young children have been working ever since the start of America. Another important major reform movement is maximum hours for young workers.

Laws and Acts have been established throughout America, putting restrictions on work labor for youth. The “Fair Labor Standards Act,” passed in 1938, establishes minimum wage, overtime pay, recordkeeping, and you employment standards affecting private and federal sectors for local governments. Laws such as these help youth throughout America, get fair pay, hours, and working conditions. Yet, there are still acts that some people may disagree with. The “Keating-Owen Act,” prevents children at the age of fifteen and lower from performing hard labor jobs. Teenagers such as myself, I am fifteen years old, are not allowed to do hard labor jobs, like painting houses, or doing landscaping. The pay for jobs such as these, are

To begin, 18% of American workers in 1900 were below 16 years of age. 25% of the employees in southern cotton mills are below age 15, yet half of the children are younger than 12 (“Child Labor”). The sad truth is that all of this is still going on today. During the Industrial Revolution is when child labor

If you were to go to a restaurant right now how old do you think your waiter would be? Twenty? Thirty? What if I told you that your waiter was an eight year old? What if the eight year wasn’t working in a nice restaurant but instead was working in a dangerous factory? During the Industrial Revolution, child labor was completely legal. In fact, many companies hired children on purpose because they didn’t have to pay them as much and also because they were more obedient than adults. Thankfully child labor is now illegal and you most likely won’t get a job until you’re about 16 years old if not older.

Minors were employed for less wages than other workers with the same amount of work and hours of labor.

In New York City, employers sometimes rely on the children of illegal immigrants. Despite all the labor laws, some children still work over the maximum hours set by those laws or do work that had been prohibited by the government. (Yellowitz) During economic crises of the developing world’s today, there are demands for more adult laborers with sufficient wages increased global poverty. To avoid starvation, many people go around looking for jobs to supply them with money they need. The employers hire them because they can pay those people less money. A lot of the time, parents may send their children to work along with them to earn the necessary money to live. (Addressing Root Causes) Also, part of the reason why child labor still exists is because of the ineffectiveness of laws to regulate child labor. Although laws have been set to prevent children of a certain age to work in certain jobs, some employers still employ young children for the accessibility to cheap labor. Relating to this issue, children’s rights are not as respected as they should be. Children, therefore, are not able to get the free and accessible education they should be entitled to, since the education systems do not accommodate poor children. In addition, since children’s rights are not taken into account very frequently,

To begin with Marijuana “Cannabis” is the most widely recognized illicit medication on the planet. Many structures have been utilized for a huge number of years for therapeutic, social and stylish impacts. Universal arrangements and the laws of most nations preclude developing, offering and having pot. Weed makes an unlawful market with a sum of billions of dollars every year. A great many people are captured for having the medication and number of detainees got to jail for offering it. Today, the question would be whether to change the laws to make it lawful to create, offer and have marijuana and if that it chose what tenets ought to apply. Even though in a few states it is lawful greater part of the states regardless it stays unlawful. Its utilization is across the board among young people. As indicated by a yearly overview of center and secondary school understudies, rates of marijuana utilize have steadied in the previous couple of years following quite a long while of increment.

Marijuana has destroyed and transformed the lives and futures of many people. It was friday night when Alejandro 19 year-old and his friend Joe 22, both college students were arrested by the possession of 3 cigarettes marijuana. Their plan was to go to the house of their group of friends to practice music after a long week of work at school. they were about to get to their destiny when a police officer pull them over because one of car lights was not working. The police officer perceived the smell of marijuana of some cigarettes that alejandro and joe had in the car, he noticed that they possessed marijuana. They did not were arrested but they had to go to court to pay a fine by the possession of marijuana. Three months later Alejandro

A childs education is very important. Having a effective and quality education is the key to success. Not having a quality education, could mean a rough path ahead in your life. According to a picture at, nccp.org 66.5% of teens had a job and a college degree. The other 33.5% don’t have a college degree but didn’t have a job according to nccp.org. Having a job as a early teen will give the teen money for education and will educate them on stuff schools don’t teach them. Making this Child Labor law to 13 for non-hazardous jobs will give the teens the education they need for their bright future ahead!

This generation is only children from 1990’s to 2000’s smoking cannabis. Over the years, there has been a lot of chances shown that children have been smoking marijuana. In the years since 2012, Colorado legalized recreational marijuana and every since then there has been traffic deaths, poison control calls and emergency room visits(USA Today). The United States should be aware of this because there are children who are abusing it. There are children who are blacks and latinos in Colorado and all across the United States. These young children are being imprisoned for the use of marijuana and possession of having it on them. There are high risks in metabolic syndrome as they are growing up. The psychosocial factors are being assessed in personality, environmental, and behavioral variables. A law that keeps marijuana illegal can help fix problems related to addiction, physical, and mental health. This would make the world a little more safer.