Presents a short study of child labor situations around the world, and follows the experiences of thirteen-year-old Mehboob from India who has been working since age eight to help his family.
Focuses on the specific issue of child labor and sweatshops and offers a variety of perspectives, eyewitness accounts, governmental views, scientific analysis, newspaper and magazine accounts, and many more to illuminate this issue.
Human trafficking - the official term for the modern-day slave trade - consists of buying and selling people with the intent of exploiting them through forced labor or sexual acts. This book provides a thorough examination of this issue.
Examines various factors that contribute to child labor in fifteen countries, describing each country's child labor scene, the history of the problem, conditions, political policies, and social aspects.
In nineteenth-century England, ten-year-old Emma, accustomed to long working hours at the silk mill and the poverty and hunger of her sister's house, finds her life completely changed when she inadvertently gets a job on a canal boat carrying cargoes between several northern towns.
Describes the various jobs which children performed during the early 1900s, the reasons for employment, working conditions, the efforts of reformers, and child labor today.
When nine-year-old Nellie begins to attend school, Samantha determines to help her with her schoolwork and learns a great deal herself about what it is like to be a poor child and work in a factory.
Explores the extent of child labor in the United States in the nineteenth century and reveals how the photography of Lewis Hine and others helped illuminate children's sordid working conditions and bring about the establishment of child labor laws.
