Child Labour In The United States

Children all over the world today are being forced into labor. They are being made to work in sweatshops, prostitution rings, and even the military and face negative consequences as a result. There are many places throughout the world where children are forced into child labor including the U.S. They are forced to work in many different types of labor depending on their gender. They also suffer from negative consequences physically and mentally. They get paid very little to work in a unstable environment for more than ten hours a day. All of these things are in violation of the children human rights. Child labor is most common in the countries of Ethiopia, Pakistan, Burundi, Afghanistan, Zimbabwe, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, Somalia,

These countries choose to force children into child labor because they are cheap to keep. They do not have to feed them or pay them at a fair wage. Basically they force children into labor because it’s easier to control them. They also force children into labor because children can do more things due to their small hands. Many people don’t know this but child labor exists in the U.S. Child labor has existed in the United States from 1832 – 1938. American children worked in large numbers in mines, glass factories, textiles, agriculture, canneries, home industries, and as newsboys, messengers, bootblacks, and peddlers. Even though they worked hard for long hours their families was still struggling to keep a roof over their heads and to put food in their stomachs. Believe it or not but children has lost their life doing work such as working in the mils. There were plenty attempts to put a stop to child

government has stop purchasing goods made by under aged children

• 1938 Federal regulation of child labor achieved in Fair Labor Standards Act

Children were not able to work under the age of 16.

Children are forced to work into many different types of labor. Those labors are working in factories, military, and prostitution. The factory workers would either be male or female. The children that normally works in the factory at the age of nine years old. The average amount of hours they work a day is ten hours. The average amount of money they get paid is 30 cents an hour.

The children that are forced to work in the military normally starts at the age of 12 years old. The average pay for a child in the military is thirty to fifty dollars a day. The children are normally used for porters, spies, messengers, and lookouts. They are also forced to kill other human beings. The way they end up in the military is by getting picked up off the street. The children that are forced to be prostitutes age of ten years old. Both male and female are forced into prostitution. They are used for pornography or performances. Children usually become prostitutes by getting kidnapped and then trafficked across the borders. Then they are sold to be prostitutes in foreign