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CHILD LABOUR CHILD LABOUR INTRODUCTION: -

Child labour refers to the employment of children at regular and sustained labour. This practice is considered exploitative by many international organizations and is illegal in many countries. Child labour was utilized to varying extents through most of history, but entered public dispute with the advent of universal schooling, with changes in working conditions during the industrial revolution, and with the emergence of the concepts of workers’ and children’s rights. Seventy-three million children ages ten to fourteen are working illegally in the world today. That makes up 11.2 percent of the population ages ten to fourteen. The purpose of this essay is to show you the shocking details of how children are exploited in underdeveloped countries.

DESCRIPTION:Why are these children working? These children are working for many reasons. In most cases people would think that these children are forced into working Although in some cases children go to work because their family is extremely poor and they feel they need to help get money. In other cases these children are physically forced into doing the work that no one else will. In other cases a child's family could all die or just plain out leave him and they will be adopted and forced to do the work. Some children get sold to a manufacture and they are forced into working. AND……………. Why do these people make these children work? It is because they can’t afford to pay people minimum wage or it is just because these children aretoo cheap to pay minimum wage. Most of these kids work in the industrial area. Textiles, carpets, clothing, and footwear are the most common places where these children are forced to work. Boys are usually working the machines that make products. Girls work as maids and house cleaners for rich people. Both of these jobs come with enormous tasks for the children. Nike is one of the biggest manufacturers of sports products in the world they have been caught using child labour and astonishing 30 times.

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With child labour are filled with a high poverty level. These children have no choice but to go and work because if they don’t they will starve and die. Child labour for these children is survival; there are no other chances for them. None of these children have the privilege of going to school and being able to go to a house at the end of a day. Most of these children work from the crack of dawn and don’t stop working till late into the night.

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CHILD LABOUR A way to prevent Child labor is to donate money so that a child can have an education. Another one is to build a home for the children living in the streets to prevent them from abuse. In there they will not be allowed to work, but only to learn! There they will have a chance to have a better life. After all they are our future! ......

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