child labor

noun

First recorded in 1875–80

The absence of schooling combined with falling incomes is likely to lead to higher rates of child labor and child marriages.

Companies would also need to monitor all minerals and metals in conflict zones and audit its suppliers for child labor.

One of their main arguments, laid out in briefs they have filed through this year, is that while child labor is awful, they are not responsible.

Those cases focused on the individuals involved and not the broader system that allows child labor to be used.

That has shielded companies from any legal action relating to child labor.

Dickens grew up in a London where child labor was ruthlessly exploited.

It points out that there are no controls on human trafficking and child labor when it comes to the production of the goods.

He also won passage of a ban on child labor, struck down by a Scalia-like like Supreme Court in 1918.

When a federal law passed curtailing the child-labor abuses, there was finally an opportunity for kids to act their age.

The problem: pesky state child labor laws requiring that minors work a maximum eight hours a day when school is not in session.

Woman-and child-labor were common in both mines and factories.

Begin with an introductory paper on child labor in the mills of England in the nineteenth century.

To the cry for a Republican system of education was added an anti-child labor crusade.

The sweatshop, child-labor, excessive hours for women, were attacked with considerable effect.

In some instances contracts were returned because of the child-labor clause.

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