“You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.” – William Wilberforce, an English politician, and leader of the movement to stop the slave trade. Human trafficking is a violation of humanity. It is a universal problem. It includes hiring, harboring, and deporting human individuals […]
Everything has to start somewhere, and building something from scratch is no easy task. It takes extreme thought, extensive planning, and even trial and error to form a product in the end that works well for the majority. Most of all, it takes hard work. In the beginning of what is now the United States […]
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Get startedIn South Pittson, 1908, numerous young boys (pictured above) are working hard in awful conditions down in the mines. Their lungs are filled with heavy clouds of dust and treated terribly, as a man, similar to a slave-driver, stands over them and physically punishes the boys to threaten them stay obedient and work hard. They […]
Child labor Laws are rules set by congress that enforces the protect working children. The U.S. needed more children in the factories, so they paid them low wages than adults. In 1938, congress passed the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) which limits the employment and abuse of child workers. In the Federal laws there’s a […]
In pre-modern eras, there were many morally unethical acts that took place. Today many of those acts have been corrected accordingly, but as it seems to show, history never truly ends with one act. All around the Earth, majority of countries enforce laws and codes that prevents any adults from forcing children (anyone below the […]
Can you imagine that somewhere in the world, there are so many children that are being mistreated daily? So many children have lost their rights and privilege to become a child labor without a choice. Once a child is forced into labor, all their hopes and dreams become a figment of their imagination. However, how […]
Nelson Mandela, former President of South Africa, once said that “There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children”. Undoubtedly, children are the one who holds the future of the country and they are the best gift to human kind. Children should have brought up […]
In the 1700s, it was commonplace for adults to spend the daytime hours working 6 days a week. Although children working has been existent for many years, there was a changing point in the types of jobs children were tasked with during the Industrial Revolution. During the late 1700s, the Industrial Revolution provided a large […]
Every year, 22,000 children die from accidents related to child labor (Child Labour). That’s 22,000 too many. Kids across the globe have to do hard labor for very little pay and harsh conditions such as work in sweatshops, harvest crops, and make textiles in factories just so that they can help their families survive. Even […]
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I think that the book Animal Farm should be read and talked about in school. In the book Animal Farm they teach some key lessons that are still useful in today’s culture. Communism is discussed throughout the book teaching others the thought some have on the Russian revolution. Animal Farm shows the power that someone […]
Some of the modern children never experience hard working nor support their families. Unlike the children back in the 1800s to 1920s, where there is no laws enforcement to keep the children inside schools. They were forced or willingly to dropped out of schools in order to support financial needs and lifestyle. Those children were […]
Child labor is a critical worldwide issue related with neediness, insufficient instructive chances, sexual orientation disparity, and a scope of wellbeing risks. Child work is characterized by the important universal traditions (UNICEF’s Convention on the Rights of the Child, International Labor Organization [ILO] Convention 138, and particularly, 1824) not by the exercises performed by the […]
Child labor is defined as the employment of children, often belonging to the age group of 5 to 17 years. At such a young age, children are a lot less demanding and could be very easily managed by the employees. Many unorganized small sectors around the world prefer to employ children for they are less […]
Good afternoon everyone, my name is Joseph Michael and I would all like you to remember something formative from your childhood, some good times that you had. Now imagine if those good times and interactions never happened because instead of having the chance to grow up you were forced to spend the years in which […]
Child Labor is having children working at a young age. Usually child labor isn’t just working children, it’s overworking them. They make these poor children work for hours and hours a day, sometimes the whole day. These kids work and while they work they barely get any food, if they even get food. They also […]
Waking up every day to a never-ending list of chores sounds like something out of a movie. There’s household work to be done, breakfast to prepare and serve, groceries to shop for, and meals to cook; staying up until 1:00 am or 2:00 am is not desired. A Cinderella story, you could call it. Yet, […]
Until the invention of cameras, the imagination of major events like war was limited to only what people heard and imagined. Photography became a powerful tool to capture and record social injustice and labor reform, changing the way we view things and what we think we know. This enhanced public awareness and exposed the true […]
Harriet Tubman was a nurse and a civil rights activist. Born in 1820 in Dorchester Country, Maryland, she was best known as a leader in the Underground Railroad. Harriet Tubman was born a slave on a plantation in Maryland. Many historians believe she was born in 1820 or 1821, but birth records were kept by […]
Harriet Tubman was born Into slavery in Dorchester County, Maryland at around 1820. Her real name was Araminta Ross. She was one of eight children. Her parents were Benjamin and Harriet Ross, both of whom were slaves. When Tubman was around five years old she became a house servant. She joined the rest of the […]
Dorchester County, Maryland, a small county where big things happened. An event so big that it lasted and impacted the states almost 200 hundred years later. Here lies the birthplace of Araminta Ross, better know as Harriet Tubman. Around 1825 Araminta Ross was born to her mother Harriet Green and Father, Ben Ross. Known to […]
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, almost half of all workers making minimum wage or less are less than 25 years old. At these ages, a large salary is not needed so why raise the minimum wage all the way to $15? Robert Reich of “Minimum Wage Should Be Increased to $15” argues that […]
