Wiktionary
alt. (context US English) The employment of children who are under the legal (or generally recognised) minimum age n. (context US English) The employment of children who are under the legal (or generally recognised) minimum age
Usage examples of "child labor".
The first child labor law in England (1788) regulated the hours and conditions of labor of the miserable children who worked as chimney sweeps—.
He told Didi Badini she's making too much trouble here on Kezdet, getting the bond kids and the Child Labor League all stirred up.
Steed was against labor unions, against womens rights, in favor of child labor, strongly opposed to integration of schools, against ministers who brought politics into their sermons, vigorously opposed to the federal income tax and distrustful of any foreign alliance.
There had been no laws against child labor when he was a boy, and he had gone to work in the Chicago factory of The American Harp Company at the age of ten.
Wipes out child labor, closes the pleasure houses, and now you're about to kill me because she has a horn like mine?
Li, had succeeded in rescuing the children imprisoned in the camps on Kezdet, a planet whose economy had once depended on the exploitation of child labor.
Here is the spirit that is to-day growing among us, the spirit that forbids child labor, cares for orphans, enacts model tenement laws, strives to regenerate the slum districts, and is increasing the altruistic activities of clubs and churches throughout the country.