child laborer
Young factory hand
A child laborer is a minor engaged in work, especially work that is exploitative, hazardous, or interferes with education.
The term carries critical weight—it implies conditions that harm children's development or violate labor laws, distinguishing it from acceptable chores or age-appropriate jobs: The factory was shut down after inspectors found child laborers as young as eight.
- sweatshopExploitative manufacturing workplace
- factoryIndustrial production facility
- long hoursExcessive time working
- mineOre excavation site
- exploitationSelfish use of others
dirt cheap · poverty · wages · textile · fields · harvest · orphan · no school · Victorian · chimney sweep · barefoot · apprentice · mill · industrial revolution · coal · underage · third world · fair trade
- oppressedslave, serf, captive, prisoner, hostage
- textile workerstailor, dressmaker, weaver, weavers, spinner
- unfree laborersslave, chattel slave, bondsman, bondswoman, bondservant
child laborerschoolchild
Young person in class
student · pupil · full-time student · schoolboy · schoolgirl
child, laborer, children, childish, childlike, childhood, childless, childlessness, labor