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By: Harris, Nick G, Derek

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Child labor persists even though laws and standards to eliminate it exist. Current causes of child labor are similar to its causes in the U.S. 100 years ago, including poverty, limited access to education, repression of workers rights, and limited prohibitions on child labor. -Poverty is when a family has a lack of money to pay for the main necessities of life. Like food, shelter and clothing. So parents dont make enough money at their jobs, so they need their children to work also to help pay the bills. -Parental Illiteracy is when parents cannot read and write. This means they cannot hold well-paying jobs so they dont make enough money for the basic necessities of life. Therefore, they require their children to work as well to help pay the bills.

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-The tradition of the children learning the family skills. This is when the children take over the parents job and the parents have to pass on their job to their kids so the kids can make money to pay the bills. -Social apathy and tolerance of child labour, This is when the country does not care that child labour is happening it is just a everyday thing and nobody would say anything. While in Canada the person that hired the child would be frowned upon. -Non-availability and non-accessibility to schools. This means that if the kids have no school to go to then they have only one option and that is to work to help parents work so they can pay the bills.

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Places In the world: Child labour is known to be present in Colombia, CDI, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Guinea, Honduras, El Salvador, Kenya, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Uganda Types of jobs: Many children work for commercial farms and plantations that produce commodities exclusively for export, making up an estimated 7-12% of the work force on these plantations. Children get beneath the branches of the coffee trees to pick the red beans, their nimble hands often outpacing those of their parents. On some farms, young slaves harvest coffee beans as well as the cacao pods that yield cocoa beans. Working Conditions: Children in agriculture face many safety and health risks. Coffee picking is exhausting work and for a child the impact can be damaging. Long hours, hot temperatures, overexposure to sun and snakebites are a constant threat to the well-being of the children, Regular exposure to dangerous chemical fertilizers and pesticides that have been banned in the U.S. are still used frequently in coffee production and pose a biological threat to children. Hours/Days: Child labourers usually work six days per week with 10 hour shifts.

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Pay: Child labourers fall through the cracks of existing government protections or monitoring. As an easily subjugated workforce, their voices are not often heard leaving them subject to low pay. In Kenya for example, coffee workers make around 1000 shillings a month ($12 U.S), while the minimum wage required by law is 3 to 4 times that amount. Environment: Child slaves work long hours, have no rights and are frequently subjected to brutal treatment and sub-human living conditions. Number of children being used: The number of child workers around the world remains extremely high with 73 million children from 10-14 years old now employed worldwide more than 13 percent of all children in this age group. The number of child workers being used to keep the coffee industry moving forward estimate 250 million working children, 120 million of whom work full time. Abuse? Children are threatened with a loss of employment, food or future employment if they try to leave the work place before the end of harvest season or if they fail to harvest enough coffee, Workers are subject to threats and verbal abuse and many are fearful of their employers.

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Millions of children around the globe are victims to major companies and industries using children for labor, with little to no pay, and no rights or union towards the workers. This is the story of Ezequiel, a child living in Nicaragua (age unknown), working on the coffee fields. Ezequiel instead of going to school, playing outside, and having a fun filled childhood; is forced to work simply to survive. I am a child but feel like a grown man! says Ezequiel. Children around the world are forced to live like adults and are treated with no value from the governments they work for. I play, sometimes says Ezequiel as he walks around the coffee fields doing his work with a machete, as we walk around with backpacks and schoolbooks and mobile devices. He works all day and has no work benefits; he has no sick days, any missed days means no pay. Ezequiel has only a run down shed with a dirt floor to live in, rest and hang his clothes to dry. He works long shifts, has no compensation, and no family or childhood. You can help children like this by donating to a child in poverty, working to live in a 3 rd world country. Also buying from brands that support fair trade can help put an end to workers being abused by scandalise governments and industries.

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Children often only earned a penny a day or no pay at all Children worked in factories Factories had poor lighting, no ventilation, and no safety devices on machinery, causing children to go blind, develop black lungs, and lose of limbs or even death Children worked 12-16 hours, 6 days a week New Laws eventually put a stop to child labour in the industrial revolution and improved standard working conditions Children are abused mentally, verbally, and physically, children are often beaten No compensation for injury on the job and no pay for any days missed Poor working conditions often causes injury or death on the job Children must work instead of going to school because they cant afford to pay for necessities and need to help their family pay bills, so they are forced to work to survive Children are homed in orphanages and forced to do work Children make low wages often 3x less than minimal wage 70% of current child labour occurs in agriculture Children are even kidnapped, or held in a orphanage and forced to do work. Children work about 10 hours a day, 6 days a week Children are often abused by large industries and money minded governments that will use children to get what they want Children are still being abused for labour with terrible working conditions and low wage, but can be stopped if we step up Industrial RevolutionSimilaritiesPresent Child Labor

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The government could stop child labour by making it illegal to work under a certain age, but in some countries companies and the government only want money and use children to make more profit. Another way to stop child labour is for everybody around the world to step up and help make changes in the way we choose our foods, and only choose from brands of fair trade. My 3rd way is by sponsoring a child in a different country so they can support them selves and get an education. strong unions are important protection against child labor. when parents are able to improve conditions through effective unions, children are much less likely to have to work Active struggles against child labor tend to strengthen unions and workers rights in general Another way to stop child labour is to step up in our own country and not support brands that use child labour, because if we bring down their sales they will do anything to get their money back, and that means ending child labour.

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