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child labor
noun
- the gainful employment of children below an age determined by law or custom.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of child labor1
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Example Sentences
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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