Discusses the history of child labor in the United States, and includes text and photographs that describe the working conditions, wages, legal rights of the young workers in the mills, factories, and mines of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Tells the story of two boys, Luis and Toni, who face hard work and danger on a daily basis by working in the coal mines in Spain, and includes a photographic documentary of various mines around the world and the children who work them.
After her father's death in the 1880s, Hannah Turner must help provide for her mother and siblings by herding sheep in the mountains near Cache Valley, Utah.
Craig Kielburger was 12 years old when child labor activist Iqbal Massih was killed in Pakistan. After visiting South Asia and seeing first hand about the lives of child laborers, he turned to advocating on the behave of these children and founded "Free the Children".
A report by the International Labour Organization that chronicles the exploitation and abuse of working children in countries throughout the world; surveys international and national law and practice; and offers suggestions for removing children from debt bondage, prostitution, and hazardous occupations and activities.
A young boy in nineteenth-century London runs away from an unhappy home, finds employment in a wine factory, and becomes acquainted with a wide variety of characters in the city streets.
