Child Labor

Introduction

Child labor means the employment and use of child workers wages. This has become a social problem during the Industrial Revolution in United States in the eighteenth century AD, and spread the problem to other countries when he turned to the industrial countries. The problem arose when the factories and mines began to use children under the age of many of them for the tenth. The children were forced to work long hours in harsh conditions of health and lower wages. (Van, 291)

Immigrant children did not live an easy life in the nineteenth century. Most children were never educated. Italian children immigrants were rarely put through schooling. However, Eastern European Jewish immigrants looked at public schooling as their best way to help their children enhance their potential in life. Chicago, Detroit, and New York City had large populations of Jewish and Italian immigrants. The conditions of the children in all three cities were similar yet different with cities in which they lived in. Jewish and Italian immigrant children had to overcome many obstacles during their adjustment to American life in the nineteenth century.

Description

Italian immigrants' children were cast into adult life at a very early age. Many of these children worked in their homes. 'They 'take out' work from sweatshops to their homes, where at times they work twelve, fourteen and sixteen hours a day finishing pants, or overalls, or children's jackets and knee pants for fifty or sixty cents a day'(The Italian girl in Chicago). An average day of work was usually like this with grueling twelve to sixteen hours. Italian children in the city of Chicago were likely to marry at a young age. (Edmonds, 199)

In fact, children work as usual in all industrialized countries and found many of them in hazardous forms of child labor. The United States is not spared. For example, agriculture employs children, most of who are from ethnic minorities or immigrant groups. A 2000 survey on children in Mexican-American occupied farms in upstate New York showed that almost half had worked in fields still wet with pesticides and over one third had been affected by sprays. (Edmonds, 199)

According to a report by Human Rights Watch, which describes the work done by children to "dangerous and exhausting," the accidents are frequent and including injuries on tools. While the current minimum hourly wage is $ 5.15, children are sometimes paid one or two dollars an hour. They have no ...