Why Kids Shouldn T Be Working

I work in a factory and if i make a wrong move a needle goes slicing through my finger and if i scream out the boss will punish me. All most all over the world child labor is happening. It is very dangerous and harmful. Some kids have died from working in these dangerous places. Child labor should not be aloud because it is dangerous, harmful and, it could kill kids.

“ 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.

It is clear to see that in the picture of child labor, from document #10, that children were unhappy. They were also unsafe because of the harsh working conditions. These places are dangerous for adults and even more dangerous for kids. According to The Apostate, by Jack London, he started work before the age of 10. Jack said, “I started working when I was younger than him.” He was talking about his 10-year old brother. Imagine kids younger than 10 working in factories.

Kids under the age of 14 cannot work and get a job. They should be able to get jobs. That means they are reliant to get money from others or parents. Or maybe that families cannot afford basic necessity and maybe the kids can help too by getting a job. But kids can do many things and are often underestimated and in most cases, kids can accomplish the same an adult can. And kids over the age of 14 can get a job but they must work under a certain amount of hours and cannot get the amount of money they want and it can affect the money they earn.

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.

Why would someone use child labor? At first glance it would seem that child labor is useless. However, child labor can be valuable to employers throughout time. A quote by Lewis Hine explain it best, “There is work that profits children, and there is work that brings profit only to employers. The object of employing children is not to train them, but to get high profits from their work.”(Hines 1918).

I do not think that child labor is right. Do you? I don’t because they could become social askew because

The next time when you are out on your shopping trip, chances you may have support a business that exploits children. It is very disturbing and heartbreaking to learn many children are chained to looms for 12 hours a day because families need to have their child bringing home a small amount of moneys. Child labor has always been a difficult subject to address, the topic have become much more complicated and prolific.

During the Industrial Revolution employers thought that it was an excellent idea to show children how it feels to work and what labor is, and mimic adults, and earn money to survive. However, Child labor in the mines was extremely dangerous and deadly. Children deserve an education and not have their lives at risk by working.

First, There is a long line of history behind child labor, and it didn't start off as abuse. Originally farmers used their children to help work on the farm ( History.com staff, 2016). Also, if other farms needed some help they would send their kids over to help ( History.com staff, 2016). After that came the industrial revolution which created many more job opportunities ( History.com staff, 2016). The more time went on the factories hired children because they were cheap and easy to boss around ( History.com staff, 2016).

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

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

There are million of working children all around the world, for example, “Asia has the highest incidence of child labor (152.5 million), followed by Africa (80 million) and Latin America (17.5 million). Measured in proportional terms approximately 40 percent of African children work, while 20 percent of children work in Asia and Latin America respectively.” (Palley) ”The worldwide population of children under fourteen who work full-time is thought to exceed 200 million”. Obviously if most children participate in child labor, then there needs to be more laws regulating it and a better way of enforcing the laws. “The general minimum age was at the first 14 years, later raised to 15, and 16 for specific dangerous environments and night work”(. There are laws on the general age someone can be to work, but there are still many children who work.

Aside from the difficulty of finding a place within a school, many children are also expected to work and to help provide for their families, as many parents cannot find a job. Many go to school all day, and then work night shifts at restaurants or factories. Many children are often exposed to extremely long working hours, dangerous types of work and many are exposed to illegal activities.

Child labor is work for children, but also harmful to their growth physically, mentally or emotionally. Children were forced to work because of their family’s extremely poor condition where they may be needed to drop out of school. In most kinds of