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Factory Act to improve conditions for children working in factories.
to improve conditions for children working in factories. -
The New Poor Law
The New Poor Law passed and paupers were sent to workhouses. -
Dickens's Oliver Twist is published
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The Mines Act stopped children under 10 from working in the mines.
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Ten Hours Act restricts working hours of children in factories.
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Dickens’s David Copperfield.
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Education Act (free and compulsory elementary school)
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Chimney Sweeps Act stopped the habit of sending small children down chimneys
Chimney Sweeps Act stopped the habit of sending small children down chimneys -
Convention No. 138 on theMinimum Age for Admissionto Employment
Countries that ratify this Convention undertake a legal promise to stop child labour and ensure that children below a certain “minimum age” are not employed. -
Convention on the Rights of the Child
“Parties recognize the right of the child to be protected from economic exploitation and from performing any work that is likely to be hazardous or to interfere with the child's education, or to be harmful to the child's health or physical, mental, spiritual, moral or social development” -
International Programme onthe Elimination of ChildLabour (IPEC)
“IPEC’s aim is to work towards the progressive elimination of child labour by strengthening national capacities to address child labour problems, and by creating a worldwide movement to combat it.” -
Child Labor Deterrence Act
"This bill would prohibit the importation of products that
have been produced by child labor, and included civil and criminal penalties for violators." -
Angela's Ashes
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Convention No. 182 on theWorst Forms of Child Labour
“It calls for ‘immediate and effective measures to secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour and
defines the worst forms of child labour.”
