Child Labour In The 1800s

Child Labor in Great Britain stated in the late 18th century. The cotton mills owners would go out into the country and find children that were either very poor or orphans and have them come work for them in the factories. In instances children would begin working in these industry at the age of five or six and work long hours of the day basically more than half the day they would end of working in that job. In 1802 social reforms would start to begin to help these children be kids and have some laws in place to help protect them physically and mentally. They would try to enforce the laws that was already implanted a lot harder but not much was done about those codes or laws that was already implanted. In 1878 a major event happened and it …show more content…
This act was to help eliminate the labor “conditions injuries to the health and efficiency of workers and unfair methods of competitions based on these conditions” (World Enc in). This act is also known as the Federal Wages and Hour Law and this act has been amended multiple times and each time that it is to help bring up the minimum wage or when overtime pay should kick in. This act is used even today and changes every time the minimum wage will change or someone sees a discrepancies in the act. However, there are special rules that apply to the Local Government and State Government, especially those that involve the law enforcement and the fire protections employees (U.S Department). 0 The Fair Labor Standard Act also comes up with exemptions to the act for youth …show more content…
A lot of the good that are imported in to the United States are either involving child labor or is forced labor. The U.s Trade Legislation has helped out a lot and has included multiple standard for labor and children also. Many nations today around the world has set laws that can help the children when they are being employed by employers. One standard that is set is that the employers can’t hire anyone younger than 14 or 15 and can’t have a child that is younger than 18 be working in dangerous occupations. Today the international workers’ rights are very important to a lot of people and is important in the economy today. A committee would soon be formed that would proceed laws and standard for children around the world, to help keep them physically, emotional and mentally safe. This committee would soon be known as the International Labor Organization. The International Labor Organization was generally known for the roles in coming up and producing labor standards that would help out internationally. This group was formed in 1919 and has adopted more than 184 conventions that they implemented so far to this day. There are two very strict and important conventions that are strictly for the children who work. The first convention sets a minimum age of kids to work and employers to hire. The Second convention that was implemented to help the children was that they prohibit the worst forms of child