You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong."
-Michael Moore
The term “child labor” is often defined as work that deprives children of their childhood, their potential and their dignity, and that is harmful to physical and mental development.
It refers to work that:
It refers to work that:
- is mentally, physically, socially or morally dangerous and harmful to children; and
- interferes with their schooling by:
- depriving them of the opportunity to attend school;
- obliging them to leave school prematurely; or
- requiring them to attempt to combine school attendance with excessively long and heavy work.
Explore the, rights, responsibilities and much more of child labor during the Industrial Revolution! Inspired by the National History Day Theme 2014.
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