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Article: Child labor: A forgotten focus for child welfare
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- Child Welfare
- Article date:
- September 1, 2001
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CopyrightCopyright Transaction Publishers Sep/Oct 2001. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Child labor is driven by child and family impoverishment, market forces, and political apathy concerning the rights of the child. Although a fundamental concern of the early 20th century child welfare system, today child labor is often seen as outside the scope of child welfare and child protective services. Making child labor a focus of child advocacy activity once again could do much to better the lives of children.
According to the International Labor Organization (ILO) Convention 138 on the Minimum Age for Employment-the world's principal standard on child labor, which was passed in 1973 and has been signed by more than 60 nations-child labor is any economic activity performed by ...