Roots
The employment of minors in work.
What is child labor?
Law made to tax employers with workers under the age of 14 in 1919.
What is the Child Labor Tax Law? (Nienstedt 195).
What is the leading industry for child labor in Africa?
Agricultural farming ("Child Labour")
Name a popular fast fashion brand that uses child labor
What is Shein? (Reuters)
How does child labor affect a child's development?
This work sometimes strips children of childhood along with an education. ("Child Labor")
Law made to enforce wage and hour division and includes specific requirements for child workers in 2019.
What is the Fair Labor Standards Act? (Nienstedt 198).
What is the leading industry for child labor in China?
Electronics
The percentage of African children that are involved in Child labor
What is 20%? (US Department of Labor)
2 reasons for increases in Child Labor
Poverty and Covid
Law that stopped imports into America from international countries with child labor.
What is the Prohibition of Acquisition of Products Produced by Forced or Indentured Child Labor Law? (Nienstedt 198).
How many hours did Chinese children spend doing labor?
On average, children spend 7 hours per day working in factories. (Tang et al. Page #2)
The company that refused to report anything but their audits in 2021-2023.
What is Shein? (Reuters)
How does Child Labor violate human rights?
When the labor is forced and not meant for children ("Child Labor").
Year laws were made to enforce education and age for working.
What is 1813?
What is forfeited when children are involved in child labor in Africa?
Absences in school - lack of education (Canagarajah and Nielsen [3])
This percentage of children in Africa ranging from 5-11 years work in agriculture.
What is 87.5%? (US Department of Labor)
What is one factor that causes an increase in child labor?
Natural Disasters or Conflicts ("Child Labor").
The year Child Labor Tax Law was rule unconstitutional.
What is 1922?
What is the child dropout rate in China of education?
11.57%, which was 9.6% higher than that for the children who were not working (Tang et al. Page #2).
In Tennessee, immigrant children, at or under the age of 14, were found handling heavy and dangerous equipment at a firm working with equipment at what company?
John Deere Company (Strickler).