Thesis Statement For Child Labor

Thesis Statement

Negative effects of child labor can be solved through provided and accessible education to continue a child's growth

Topic Outline

I.Background

II.Problem Solution

A.Child labor elimination programs should be budgeted and funded by the congress

B.Organizations that spread awareness and change perspectives about child labor to eliminate it

C.Providing education to children to continue their normal growth

III.Conclusion

A.Summarization of solutions

B.Restate the strengths of best solution Child Labor

Child labor is work for children, but also harmful to their growth physically, mentally or emotionally. Children were forced to work because of their family's extremely poor condition where they may be needed to drop out of school. In most kinds of...show more content... Groups of people that are against the issue of child labor, or child exploitation, cooperate and begin organizations. Founded by a few, to grow into a much more effective project was the way to let the rest of the world aware about the current situation of children being exploited. A well–known organization named International Labor Organization (ILO), has created a project to take action against child labor. The project is named International Program on the Elimination of Child Labor (IPEC), which was created in 1992. IPEC has reached milestones to be closer to eliminating child labor, according to ILO–IPEC (2013), "Global number of children in child labour has declined by one third since 2000, from 246 million to 168 million children. More than half of them, 85 million, are in hazardous work (down from 171 million in 2000)." It can be seen that progress and action has been made, a potential to making a difference in the issue. There may be an effect, but awareness alone cannot solve this issue. Using awareness like this need to think their strategies and improve

Child labor was a staple during the Urbanization of the United States of America. Fresh out of a bloody Civil War that took the lives of at least 618,000. Child labor was very dangerous. Especially in the steel mills because of the lack of safety equipment. It was also very dangerous because the children laborers were very young for the jobs they were doing for such cheap pay. Anywhere between 12–16 years old. Since they were all very young they were not very strong. So due to them being weak, young, basically meeting no physical conditions to be able to work efficient the steel mill owners would take advantage of that. They saw cheap labor. Very cheap and easy labor. There was child labor that was socially acceptable at the time and still...show more content...

The negative side of the "apprenticeship" is that the former slave owner could use and abuse his "apprentice". The courts allowed lots of apprenticeships. Most people would assume that they used that as a cover for what they really wanted to use the "apprentice" for. Another common theme was people called "padrones". They were basically the recruiting department to find young Italian boys in Italy and have them and their family sign an "apprentice" contract. The contract was labeled that the boys would be shipped off to America from Italy to learn to play an instrument. Now, they did learn to play an instrument but not like they had imagined when first signing the apprentice contract. They would learn to play instruments, but they then were forced onto street corners to perform and make the padrone's money. The children that were good enough to make any money would be on good terms with the padrones. Those who protested and didn't make any money would often get beatings consequently for not making the padrone money. The kids wouldn't often even get any money. (Michael Schuman, History of child labor in the United States–part 1: little children working)

A perfect example on how the child labor was in the south is "...hundreds of under–nourished, over–worked and scantily clad little boys and girls do the galley–slave act in the treadmill of industry in Democratic territory." (Washington Bee (Washington (DC), District of Columbia) 10–02–1920

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