child labor

Noun

Meaning

child labor (uncountable)

(American spelling) Alternative spelling of child labour

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Examples

Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth and other social problems. Kailash Satyarthi

We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the informal sector, which is more invisible to public scrutiny - and thus leaves the children more open to abuse and exploitation. Carol Bellamy

Child slavery is a crime against humanity. Humanity itself is at stake here. A lot of work still remains, but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime. Kailash Satyarthi

Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time. Grace Abbott

Of course, we knew that this meant an attack on the union. The bosses intended gradually to get rid of us, employing in our place child labor and raw immigrant girls who would work for next to nothing. Rose Schneiderman

Child labor must be abolished by the working class. Eugene V. Debs

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