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Explore the detrimental effects of child labor on society, as it violates laws, threatens health, and deprives education. Discover why it exists, who it involves, and where it is prevalent globally. Learn about the various types of work children are forced to do and the sources shedding light on this issue.
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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