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Article: What is child labor?(Cover story)
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- Faces: People, Places, and Cultures
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- April 1, 2006
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About 246 million children between the ages of 5 and 17 are engaged in "child labor," according to the International Labour Organization's (ILO) 2000 global estimate. An estimated 73 million of these children are below the age of 10.
What is meant by "child labor"? What kind of work constitutes child labor? And where are these child laborers found? How is child labor connected to us as Americans? These are very simple questions. The answers, unfortunately, are not so simple.
It has taken many years to come to some kind of agreement on the definition of child labor. While experts continue to disagree on some aspects of the definition, two international ...