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Shocked: large companies like Hershey or Mars are still using child labour to produce their products

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Western Africa: cocoa is a common crop for export

60% of the Ivory Coast’s export revenue comes from its cocoa

Most of the children start working to help their families

Traffickers tell them that the pay is very high, which drags in children to work

Children are often sold by their own relatives to traffickers, who are unaware of the dangerous working environment and the lack of provisions for any education

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Many big chocolate companies use child labour in their main production lines

Hershey

Nestlé

Mars

Fowler’s chocolate

Godiva

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Is the rate of child labour actually decreasing?

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More opportunities and growth

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Children would be mistreated without these laws.

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Child labour laws are important for preventing children being overworked and placed in hazardous working conditions. This allowed children to receive education; different from before, when children didn’t have time for school and couldn’t receive education.

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The amount of child labour is decreasing, but very slowly. It has decreased compared to the 1800s, but there are still large factories which use child labour. 152 million in child labour around the world.

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Mining, soldiering, trafficking(reached 1.2 million every year), farming: various forms of child labour

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Manufacture work: continuing from the past

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But still, there are places where children get paid less than a dollar, or no pay at all

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If a child worked 70~100 hours per week, their weekly income would be about 28 dollars (very different from the industrial revolution

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Factory act of 1833 changed several aspects of the child labour textile industry, but wasn’t effective, since the factory owners still broke the law.

Attempt to control the amount of child labour(in the textile industry)

Stated: children from 14 to 18 years old could not work for more than 12 hours a day with a 1 hour lunch break

9 to 13 years old could only work for 8 hours a day with a 1 hour lunch break, also required to have a 2 hour education period per day.

Children under 9 years old couldn’t work in the textile industry

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Compensate would be very low if children got injured during work time. They would have to fight with the company to receive compensation

Ex. a 16 years old boy lost his right arm and leg, but no one came to compensate him, even after he worked for more than two years in the company.

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Equipments and machines that children worked on were very dangerous (coal mines, tractors, factories) Machinery that obtained open gears would constantly cause injuries

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12~18 hours a day, for six days a week = 72~108 hours per week = (a week’s pay) 1 dollar

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Mechanical operating systems replaced hand labour in the early 1800s. Employers found out that children could be hired cheaper than adults. (adult strength and knowledge wasn’t needed to manage these machines) The number of working children increased dramatically.

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What does this make you wonder about Child Labour today?

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What does this make you wonder about Child Labour today?

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5 aspect of a Modern Day Child Labour industry

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5 aspect of a Modern Day Child Labour industry

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5 aspects about child labour during the Industrial Revolution

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5 aspects about child labour during the Industrial Revolution