Field Coverage

Child Labor Worldwide: It's Still a Problem

1 January 1978

Most nations have laws that prohibit child labor. Yet throughout the world, children in large numbers can be seen toiling in sweatshops, hauling concrete, tilling fields, plucking garbage or peddling shoes.
Children in La Paz tending a Bolivian cemetary.

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