The Evils of Child Labor

Child labor is a global problem affecting the psychology of millions of children. Certain types of child labor, such as working at family farms and factories, are traditional, but many other children are forced to enter due to abusive situations, and some situations are unbearable. Child labor has many different approaches: agriculture (plantation and farm), domestic labor (family), manufacturing industry, mining and quarrying industry. There are many solutions to this problem, one of which is to enact the government and to enact laws to stop it. Child labor appears in various forms such as poverty, child abuse, tradition, and family expectations.

In 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt said, "Except for hopeless recoils, everyone manages the longest time, minimum wage, child labor, exploitation of extra-organization labor in order to protect our human resources We must declare it. " The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) adopted by the enormous pressure of organized workers plays a major role as a means of protecting "major human resources", but the unemployment rate at the time of wages Was 18%, but the Federal Government decided to abandon its political power and promote wage hikes. At that time, FLSA set a minimum wage of 25 cents, and stipulated 40 hours of labor per week. Half of the time you spent over 40 hours of the week

As industrialization of child labor continues to progress, people begin to realize that evil. This led to the idea of ​​reforming child labor. The reformers established the Association for the Prevention of Child Abuse. SPCC has a restricted factory bill for the New York State Assembly. They want to ban the factory work for children under 14 years of age. In addition, there are too many differences in this consideration, but this reduction allows organizations to gain more hope and motivation to maintain. Soon, New York passed the 18-year-old factory law and prohibits children under 13 from working on factories and farms.

In the US it took many years to ban child labor. By 1899, 28 states passed the law regulating child labor. Many efforts have been made to pass the National Child Labor Law. The US Congress passed two laws in 1918 and 1922, but the Supreme Court declared that both laws are unconstitutional. In 1924, Congress proposed a constitutional amendment prohibiting child labor, but the state did not approve it. Later in 1938, Congress passed the Fair Labor Standards Law. The minimum age of enrollment is 16 years old, the work after school is 14 years old, and the dangerous work is 18 years old. Today, there are laws regulating child labor in all states and the US government. These laws will heal the worst evil of the children working in the factory.