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Water powered cotton mills
England and Scotland in 1788, 2/3 of workers are described as children. The children wages were often low ranging between 10%-20% -
First country to pass law restricting child labour
Massachusetts created the first state child labour law requiring factory children under 15 to go to school for a minimum of 3 months per year. -
The first law that limits the amount of child work
Prussia was the first country to limit the amount of hours a child could work in a factory. The law states that children under the age of 9 are forbidden from being employed. The law also said that the labour of youth under 16 is going to be limited to 10 hours per day. -
Europe ending child labour
Nearly every country in Europe had set a law against child labour by 1890. -
March Of The Mill Children
In Philadelphia July 7 1903, Marry Harris Jones Began the "March Of The Mill Children" from Philadelphia President Theodore Roosevelt's summer home in Oyster Bay, New York. To familiarize Theodore Roosevelt about the harsh environment of child labour and demand a 55-hour work a week. -
First Organization Against Child Labour
"Siam Tram Workers" association, was the first official labour association -
U.S Fair Labour Standards Act
In 1938 U.S. they restricted the amount of hour and types of job a children under 16 can do. -
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a milestone document in the history of human rights. The Declaration was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris on 10 December 1948, as a common standard of achievements for all peoples and all nations. The UDHR is widely recognized as having inspired and paved the way for, the adoption of more than seventy human rights treaties, applied today permanently at global and regional levels. -
Minimum age convention
In C138 - Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138) Article 3 states that worker should not be under the age of 18. The law has been authorized by 172 countries. -
Save the Children Thailand
Save the Children is an organization in Thailand. They started the organization 1979. They support the children by giving them education and help protect them. -
Global March Against Child Labour
Global March Against Child Labour is an international movement to build and strengthen worldwide efforts to protect and promote the rights of all children, especially freedom from economic exploitation and their right to a full-time quality basic education. Nobel Peace Prize 2014 winner Kailash Satyarthi, founded the organization in 1998, and he continues as the President of the Global March. -
Thailand Labour Protection Act
The primary legislation governing child labour is the Thailand Labour Protection Act 1998, which sets forth regulations concerning the employment of minors. According to this act, a “child” refers to any person under the age of 15 years old, while a “young person” is defined as an individual between the ages of 15 and 18 years old. -
Agriculture Child Labour Prevention US
Under strong pressure from the Agriculture lobby, the White House forces the US Department of Labour to withdraw proposed rules to protect children working for wages in US agriculture from known hazards. In a complete abdication, the Obama Administration announces it will not revisit these rules during its tenure. These hazardous occupation orders for agriculture have not been updated in over 40 years. -
U.N. Child Labour Elimination
The U.N. General Assembly declared 2021 the Year for the Elimination of Child Labour.