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Kids are being used and put to hard work, known as child labor.  People have been using kids to do dangerous jobs for them because kids are able to move around easier and get into tighter spaces.  They were never paid very much for their work.

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Child labor started in the late 1700’s and early 1800’s when the Industrial Revolution started.  Families needed more people to work to make money, so the kids were put to work.  Child labor became even worse then, when more and more people would immigrate in.  More supplies were needed, therefore the more and longer kids were needed to work.

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It is happening all over the world.  The worst place it is occurring in is Eritrea.  The other main places are: Somalia, DR Congo, Myanmar (Asia), and Sudan.  There are about 215 child laborers and about 53% of them are from Asia and the Pacific which is about 14 million. About 60% of child labor happens in agriculture, fishing, hunting, and some children have been found harvesting multiple different things.

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100 million kids all around the world work in hazardous conditions - agriculture, mining, domestic labor. On tobacco farms, kids would work in the heat for extremely long hours, while exposed to nicotine and other toxic gases. In some countries, they would send the kids to work underground in the pits that usually collapse. They are also sometimes told to go work with the Mercury that they use to process gold. They are risking brain damage and other serious health conditions.  Any job that needed done, a kid was put to work.  Some worked on the streets shining shoes, and most of the others were in factories.

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One way that has helped child labor end was that the unions had strong protection against child labor. If the parents were able to improve the conditions through the different unions, there would be more of a chance that their kid didn’t have to work in the difficult conditions. Because the unions were against child labor and protecting it, it strengthened the unions as a whole.   They were trying to stop kids from working, and be more involved in school.  The Unions came together with communities and families to prevent it from happening.

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Child labor violated the human rights laws and Article 32, Convention Rights of the Child, in the International Labor Organization. Because kids had to work, some kids were struggling to even get just four years of schooling in.

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Many kids are getting hurt because of the dangerous and tough tasks they are asked to do. One of the most dangerous things they are asked to do has to do with agriculture. The kids are also having a physiological issues because of working so much. Between having to work long hours and performing dangerous tasks, there’s not a lot of time to be independent and to do things that you want to do. This has an impact on us, because child labor got abolished and that makes us, not have to be apart of it. We could be apart of child labor today if nothing changed a while ago.

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Kids as young at 6 years old would work during the Industrial Revolution for no pay at all. Some kids worked up to 19 hours a day and only 1 hour of break. Not only were their hours not good, their work conditions were horrible. Many kids died because of accidents within the work forces. The work conditions were bad until 1833, when things started to improve. The factory owners would pay the kids half of what the adults would make, and sometimes not pay them at all.

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When it first started, no one was doing anything to stop it because they were making more supplies.  Then, the National Child Labor Committee was put in place to stop child labor.  The committee was patient on stopping the labor, and reached out to the community to prevent it.  The National Child Labor Committee passed child labor laws to help the children that were affected from this.  These laws limited the time kids could work because they still had to go to school, made the school year longer, and gave the kids transportation.  It also stated that there should be no full-time working kids.

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It was hurting the children because they were having to work all the time.  It was even hurting the families because the kids were having to go out to work and not be able to stay home and do chores that were needed to be done.  Moms would be the only ones that were taking care of the house.   They would barely make any more money than they were because the kids would not get paid a lot.  It was a waste of time, the kids were not able to learn anything from school either.  They were too busy working to be going to school and learning.   Kids would then be limited on what jobs they would be able to do in the future because they lost their education from working.

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Usually, the kids that were not old enough to work with and around the machines, they would have to work as assistants for the textile workers. The people the kids would work for would beat them, verbally and physically abuse them, and they wouldn’t care about their safety. If they were late to work, they would put heavy weights around the kids’ necks and make them walk up and down the aisles of the factory. All of the other kids would see them and their punishment and know not to be late to work. That could last up to an hour giving the kids neck and back problems. The parents of the kids would sometimes drag the kids out of bed naked and make them take their clothes to their place of work and make them put them on there so they weren't not late.

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http://www.history.com/topics/child-labor

https://www.hrw.org/topic/childrens-rights/child-labor

http://www.worldatlas.com/articles/worst-countries-for-child-labor.html

http://www2.needham.k12.ma.us/nhs/cur/Baker_00/2002_p7/ak_p7/childlabor.html

https://www.continuetolearn.uiowa.edu/laborctr/child_labor/about/ending.html

https://www.continuetolearn.uiowa.edu/laborctr/child_labor/about/ending.html

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3425238/

https://www.continuetolearn.uiowa.edu/laborctr/child_labor/about/health_issues.html

http://www.kawvalley.k12.ks.us/schools/rjh/marneyg/05_history-projects/05_amack_childlabor.htm

https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/hine-photos

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When Europeans came in and immigrated, they brought ideas that kids should be put to work.   The National Child Labor Committee was involved in preventing the labor from continuing.  Lewis Hine took pictures and notes of what it was like while child labor was happening.  He thought that if people could actually see what it was like that they would help put something into place to stop it.

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What would happen if people ignored this issue?

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What would happen if people ignored this issue?

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If people ignore the issue, child labor will continue to go on.  It will just keep getting worse and worse and time goes on because no one it doing anything to stop it.  People want money, and they will do it anyway they can if nothing is being done to stop it.  Therefore; nothing good will change if people ignore it.  Child labor is not a funny thing, it is serious because kids are being put to hard work and could be in danger from their jobs.