This part of the website is the most impacted section due to it being the long term impact of child labor. Without child labor today, your lives would be very different and chances are you wouldn't have half of the things that you own today. It also causes negative effects because it showes the dark parts of history where children were deprived of their childhood and were sent to work and gives the idea of countries to still use child labor today.
"Even in this modern era, children around the world are forced to work in deplorable and often dangerous conditions at a time in their lives when they should be in classrooms and playgrounds. Global child labor perpetuates a cycle of poverty that prevents families and nations from reaching their full potential."
-Barack Obama
-Barack Obama
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"Do you remember when you wanted that first record album or that awesome dirt bike? Wanting that really cool (really expensive) toy gun was what got me to selling my labor. I worked my under aged butt off for the longest, most excruciating, back busting, exploitative two hours. Well maybe that wasn’t really considered to be child labor. Child labor is characterized by those actions that interrupt the right to an education and is physically, mentally and developmentally harmful to a person under eighteen years of age."
-Bipolar Philosopher, March 7, 2013
-Bipolar Philosopher, March 7, 2013
Seventeen different countries have children involved in armed conflict. Fighting, spying, mine sweeping, cooking, and servitude are only a few of the tasks that children perform during violent conflicts. In some cases schools are used as military grounds for confrontation or negotiation.
-Bipolar Philosopher, March 7, 2013
-Bipolar Philosopher, March 7, 2013
-Child labour in India is addressed by the Child Labour Act 1986_and National Child Labour Project
There are currently an estimated 12 million vulnerable children in India (up from around 11.3 million in 1991). They toil everywhere from stone quarries and carpet factories to rice mills. In addition, children are bought and sold into bonded slavery for the sex trade or to work as domestic servants. “Children as young as five years old are kept from school, forced to work seven days a week for up to 18 hours a day."
-Nilanjana Bhowmick: In India, Hundreds March on Parliament to Demand End to Child Labor
-Nilanjana Bhowmick: In India, Hundreds March on Parliament to Demand End to Child Labor
The global number of child labourers has dropped from 246 million to 168 million over the last decade. But even the latest improved rate of decline is not enough to achieve the goal of eliminating the worst forms of child labour by 2016 – agreed by the international community through the ILO.
-International Labour Organization, 8-10 October 2013
-International Labour Organization, 8-10 October 2013
In 1992, a National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) report found that 670 youths aged 16 to 17 were killed on the job from 1980 to 1989. Seventy percent of these deaths and injuries involved violations of state labor laws and the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), the federal law which prohibits youths under 18 from working in hazardous occupations.
-Ron Nixon: Child Labor In The U.S. Is Worse Today Than During the 1930’s
-Ron Nixon: Child Labor In The U.S. Is Worse Today Than During the 1930’s
Conclusion
Although child labor is still in use today, the qualities have been enhanced to be better for the children
and there is much less child labor than in the past.
Although child labor is still in use today, the qualities have been enhanced to be better for the children
and there is much less child labor than in the past.