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Child Laboring
Group Members-Kevin S. Alex H. Nathan K.
Created by: Nathan Kosewski
What is it?
• Work that harms children• Keeps children out of school
What Child Labor Involves
• Violates minimum age law• Threatens physical and emotional health• Involves intolerable abuse
Who it Involves (Ages of kids)
• Vast majority of children• Ages ranging from four to sixteen
Why it Exist
• Children are easy to victimize• Families in poverty, forced to work• Work for low wages
Where it Exists
• Throughout the world• Mainly in the Global South• (Africa, South America)
Type of Work Kids are Forced to do
• 60% happens in agriculture. • 14 million est. in Manufacturing• (factories)
Sources
• http://www.continuetolearn.uiowa.edu/laborctr/child_labor/about/what_is_child_labor.html
• http://ihscslnews.org/view_article.php?id=94• http://
library.thinkquest.org/03oct/01908/800/whydoesitoccur_childlabor.htm
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