child labor
Minors at work
Child labor is the employment of children in work that deprives them of childhood, interferes with schooling, or harms their physical or mental development.
The term typically refers to exploitative or hazardous work rather than age-appropriate chores or family tasks.
Historically widespread in factories, mines, and agriculture, child labor became the target of reform movements and international law: The company was accused of using child labor in its overseas factories.
Exploitative manufacturing workplace
- traffickingIllegal transport for profit
- coercionPressured compliance through threats
- abuseCruel or violent treatment
- servitudeCompulsory labor under masters
bondage · victimization · oppression · overwork · vulnerability · helplessness · powerlessness · subjugation
Systematic development of mind
- protectionGuarding against harm
- legislationOfficial enactment of statutes
- conventionAgreed standard of behavior
- advocacyPleading for a cause
welfare · safeguarding · ILO · UNICEF · minimum age · compulsory schooling · rehabilitation · enforcement
Industrial production facility
- textilesWoven or knit materials
- manufacturingIndustrial product creation
- miningExtracting earth's resources
- agricultureCultivation of land, livestock
garment · footwear · carpet · brick kiln · plantation · fishing · tannery · cocoa
Extreme poverty, lacking necessities
- malnutritionDisease from dietary inadequacy
- slumsImpoverished, crowded districts
- impoverishedExtremely lacking in money
- inequalityUnequal distribution of resources
illiteracy · subsistence · hardship · survival · family income · breadwinner · school dropout · economic necessity
Rapid economic mechanization period
- chimney sweepOne who cleans hearth vents
- newsboyYouth selling periodicals
- match girlGirl selling fire-starters
- VictorianOf a prim era
coal mine · apprentice · workhouse · Dickensian · reform movement · progressive era · tenement · piecework
sweatshop
Exploitative manufacturing workplace
- traffickingIllegal transport for profit
- coercionPressured compliance through threats
- abuseCruel or violent treatment
servitude · bondage · victimization · oppression · overwork · vulnerability · helplessness · powerlessness · subjugation · deprivation
education
Systematic development of mind
- protectionGuarding against harm
- legislationOfficial enactment of statutes
- conventionAgreed standard of behavior
advocacy · welfare · safeguarding · ILO · UNICEF · minimum age · compulsory schooling · rehabilitation · enforcement · monitoring
factory
Industrial production facility
- textilesWoven or knit materials
- manufacturingIndustrial product creation
- miningExtracting earth's resources
agriculture · garment · footwear · carpet · brick kiln · plantation · fishing · tannery · cocoa · cobalt
destitution
Extreme poverty, lacking necessities
- malnutritionDisease from dietary inadequacy
- slumsImpoverished, crowded districts
- impoverishedExtremely lacking in money
inequality · illiteracy · subsistence · hardship · survival · family income · breadwinner · school dropout · economic necessity · food insecurity
industrial revolution
Rapid economic mechanization period
- chimney sweepOne who cleans hearth vents
- newsboyYouth selling periodicals
- match girlGirl selling fire-starters
Victorian · coal mine · apprentice · workhouse · Dickensian · reform movement · progressive era · tenement · piecework · indentured
- child labordebt bondage, hazardous work, hazardous occupations, factory work, domestic work
- economic ethicsfair wages, fair pricing, economic justice, economic fairness, wealth redistribution
- employment ageminimum age, working age, age limits, age requirement, age restriction
- Gilded AgeGilded Age, robber baron, robber barons, Carnegie, Rockefeller
- labor historyAFL-CIO, workers, CIO, unionization, industrial workers
- labor policyworker rights, worker protections, job protection, working conditions, employment contracts
child laborschooling
Formal education received
childhood innocence · free play · childhood play · childhood · play
child, labor, children, childish, childhood, laborer, labored, childbirth, laboring