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    Causes Child Labour

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    of the causes of child labour? Poverty and its related problems are the two main factors, which lead to the cause of child labour around the world. They are both extreme dominant factors in the use of child labour as families on or below the poverty line force their children into work to supplement their household’s extremely low income. Poverty around the world are due to population pressure, land degradation, unemployment and underage employment. Other main causes of child labour is due to cultural

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    Rosmanitz Child Labour

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    work to moil from cockcrow to dusk, incumbently attempting to succor their progenitors augment the wherewithal to survive. Child labor, which according to the article “Almanac—World & News—TIME For Kids Magazine World Report Edition”, “exists in two-thirds of the world's nations”(Almanac 1) is detrimental to bairns around the terrene. One example is declared in the article, “Child workers are getting sick while harvesting tobacco on U.S. farms” by the Associated Press, a 17-year-old adolescent named

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    Child Labour

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    CAUSES OF CHILD LABOUR • Poverty • Parental illiteracy • Tradition of making children learn the family skills • Absence of universal compulsory Primary education • Social apathy and tolerance of child labour • Ignorance of the parents about the adverse consequences of Child labour • Ineffective enforcement of the legal provisions pertaining to child labour • Non-availability of and non-accessibility to schools • Irrelevant and non-attractive school curriculum • Employers prefer children as they constitute

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    Child Labour

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    <center><b>Our Efforts and Experiences – Part - I</b></center> <br> <br>"In all the civilized societies all over the world system of child labour is condemned as a social evil but the fact is the system is prevelent on a large scale in a country like India. It is noticed that, in recent times our society is showing some signs of awareness about this social evil. This is the first part of the article giving details about the efforts undertaken in and around Ahmedpur for eradication of this system

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    Child Labour in The United States Child Labour: A History America and The Industrial Revolution ‘Forms of child labor, including indentured servitude and child slavery, have existed throughout American history.’ (http://www.continuetolearn.uiowa.edu/laborctr/child_labor/about/us_history.html) During the years following the Civil War, (http://americanhistory.about.com/od/industrialrev/a/indrevoverview.htm) the American working class made an abrupt transition away from farm work and home chores

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    was a Child Labour Photographer. Her job was to take photographs focusing on children, showing workers, working and living conditions. Photographs also show recreational activities and victims of work-related accidents. This source was a photo from a glass factory in Indiana, America not from Britain. This source originally came from August 1908 which was at the end of the Industrial Revolution. Purpose The reason for the author to create this source was to help aid the National Child Labour

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    these corruptions, came one of the worst darkest sides of the industrial revolution which is known as child labour. Although children have been servants and apprentices throughout most of the human history, child labour reached its extreme point during this time. Child labour is the employment of children under the age of physical maturity, which is 18 years old. As many believe that child labour does not affect them, they do not realize the Persian rugs they own are all made by the suffering children

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    The child labour is a serious widespread social problem for the rural and urban Colombia. There are many reasons why the children in this country are submitted to work either by their own or an obligation. Until some years ago, in the rural zone the families were numerous specially to ensure a cheaper workforce showing a well-known growth of the population in these zones instead of the urban ones where one didn't see this problem and increasing the incident of poverty. So, the principal reason of

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    avoiding buying products from companies that use child labor, we can minimize the amount of children injured, hindered by, and killed in the workforce every year. Three quarters of the children who are forced into child labor work in very hazardous conditions and do dangerous jobs such as working in mines, chemical compounds and agricultural work, putting their lives at risk. Hazardous child labour is the largest category of the worst forms of child labour with an estimated 85 million children, aged

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    Child labour is much worse than it is portrayed by the media. Child labour includes the employment of children in the business, food, clothing industries that is considered to be illicit or exploitative (Bonnet, 2017). It denies children their basic rights such as protection and freedom from exploitation. Children, instead of going to school, work in dangerous and physically damaging work due to limited access to resources. Reliable statistics are scare as child labour continues to grow each day

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