Hey I am Cassie Drodge from period one 20 th century. The topic I have chosen is Child Labor. Which is also known as “child slavery.” Child Labor is “the employment of children who are under the legal age.” The ages of the children that are usually working are 5 years old to 17 years old. Children usually died before age 17 because of the manual labor they had to do was to rough on their bodies. The places the child labor is most common in the United States, Uzbekistan, Brazil, England and many places in Africa and South Africa. Most children usually decide to work because their family is poor or because they had no parents and have to survive on their owns. Child labor now and back then have many differences and similarities.

There were many attempts to end child labor in the Constitution, but there was not enough states that agreed with the law. Some differences back then to now is that children back then earned close to 23 percent of their families income. Now children earn less than that for their families. There has been many people and states that have tried to stop child labor back then, but no one was successful. An example of a state is England. England was one of the most common child labor areas of all. Another difference between now and then is that children have more rights now than back then because back then they would not give you any choices, you just did what they said. Some similarities are is that it is still occuring around the U.S., Africa, South Africa, and etc. Another similarity is that back then and now they are still trying to make laws to make sure children have certain rights too. Child labor occurs almiost every where in the world. It is thought by many that no matter what child labor will still be around for many years.