The following is a students class project for global issues. C hild labor is still a global problem. In this section you the reader will learn about the problems with child labor.
Child labor is when a child is being used to do work of an adult for less pay.
In the 1800 s children were used to do work such as mining, selling newspaper, venders, and working in sweat shops because they were cheap labor. Some of them were made into slaves. Their parents would sell their own children into slavery. The child laborers age range from 7 to 15 years of age. T he problem arose when factories and mines employed children, many younger than ten years old to work for them for next to nothing.