Children do not only play. They also work in some parts in the world today. Child labor was once a much larger number of children forced to work. However, 200 million children are said to be still laborers. The 200 million children are categorized as nine year old coal miners, eight year old prostitutes, and of little girls who work twelve hour shifts in sweatshops. In most of these sweatshops, they are forced to eat, sleep and …
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…establish a law against it. In 1938 The Fair labor standards act was passed that freed children from the grim of dangerous work. Child Labor had decreased dramatically in the United States over the past fifty years; young people around the world continue to serve as child laborers. Africa, Asia, Central America & South America have the highest rate of child labor. There is still a serious amount of children who are migrant farm workers & sweatshop worke