Monday, October 27, 2008

Child Laborers Are:

Child labor is often characterized as the practice of using under aged factory workers in developing countries to produce goods for Western consumers. This may be an accurate account of the experience of many child workers, but this is not the only way child labor is used. Child laborers are:
- Farmers
- Factory Workers
- Retail Workers
- Weavers 
- Brick Makers
- Tailors
- Soldiers
- Prostitutes
- Trash Collectors 
- Domestic Workers
- Construction Workers
- Drug Traffickers 
- Slaves
- Harvesters
- Servers
- Miners
- Fishermen
- Welders
- Boys
- Girls
- Living in poor communities
- Living in wealthy communities
- Uneducated
- In school
- In every country
above: 10 year old migrant worker cuts onions instead of going to school in Eagle Pass, TX. (Credit: Stolen Childhoods)

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