Child Labor

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This paper explains that most of the children engaging in child labor live in underdeveloped countries of Latin America, Africa, and Asia, where living conditions for these children are crude and opportunities for education minimal; however, their income is necessary for the survival of their families, providing the basic essentials. The author points out that many small enterprises are completely dependent on child labor, and the bulk of child labor occurs in rural areas and is usually associated with traditional family economic activities, such as farming or animal husbandry. The paper stresses that child prostitution, a worldwide, urban, social phenomenon, is considered one of the worst contemporary forms of slavery and one of the most difficult and dangerous forms of child labor.

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"Industrialization in many countries has created working conditions for children that equal the worst features of the nineteenth century factories and mines. Much of the effort to eliminate child-labor abuses throughout the world has come from the International Labor Organization, ILO, which was founded in 1919 and is now a special agency of the United Nations. The ILO has introduced several child-labor conventions, including a minimum age of sixteen years for admission to all work, a higher minimum age for specific types of employment, compulsory medical examinations, and regulation of night work."

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