Child labour
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Child labour refers to the employment of children at regular and sustained labour. This practice is considered exploitative by many international organizations and is illegal in many countries. Child labour was utilized to varying extents through most of history, but entered public dispute with the advent of universal schooling, with changes in working conditions during the industrial revolution, and with the emergence of the concepts of workers' and children's rights.
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See also
- Bacchá
- Child abuse
- Child labour in India
- Child migration
- Child pornography
- Child prostitution
- Child slavery
- Child soldiers
- Children in cocoa production
- Children's rights movement
- Concerned for Working Children
- Firestone Liberian controversy
- Guaranteed minimum income
- International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, IPEC
- International Research on Working Children
- Labour law
- Legal working age
- London matchgirls strike of 1888
- Newsboys strike of 1899
- Street children
- Child labour and mining in Africa
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