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