“Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.” IfsChildrenEndsUseTogetherSocialPovertyDiseaseLaborBoundsTreatmentEnd TimesEnding PovertyLabor DayChild LaborCheap LaborChild Labour Author:Grace Abbott
“Scratch any fortune and you'll find blood only a generation or two back...child labor in mines or mills...Slavery. Drugs. Stock swindles. Wasting nature with clear-cuts, pollution, harvesting to extinction. Monopolies. Disease. War. Every fortune comes out of something unpleasant.” ChildrenTwoWarClearCuttingGenerationsBloodMinesDrugDiseaseLaborSlaveryFortunePollutionScratchesExtinctionMonopolyMillsChild Labor Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“I am also very proud to be a liberal. Why is that so terrible these days? The liberals were liberatorsthey fought slavery, fought for women to have the right to vote, fought against Hitler, Stalin, fought to end segregation, fought to end apartheid. Liberals put an end to child labor and they gave us the five day work week! What's to be ashamed of?” ChildrenEndsWomenFiveWeekProudTerribleLaborVoteSlaveryFeministThese DaysEmpoweringAshamedWomens RightsSegregationApartheidRight To VoteChild LaborWork Week Author:Barbra Streisand
“Kids don't have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don't have a little sister coughing her lungs out in the looms of the big mill towns of the Northeast. Why? Because we organized; we broke the back of the sweatshops in this country; we have child labor laws. Those were not benevolent gifts from enlightened management. They were fought for, they were bled for, they were died for by working people, by people like us. Kids ought to know that.” PeopleKnowsChildrenLittlesCountryStoriesBigsKidsLawSongMinesBrotherHard WorkOughtSingingLaborRootsDiedTownsManagementFruitBrokeOrganizedEnlightenedChild AbuseProtectedOrganizeCoalLungsFuture GenerationRaising ChildrenMillsBenevolentLittle SisterLittle BrotherLawlessnessChild LaborCoughingOrganized LaborDeserve BetterSweatshopsUnderpaidLabor LawsFruit Of Labor Author:Utah Phillips
“The conservative goal has been the Third Worldization of the United States: an increasingly underemployed, lower-wage work-force; a small but growing moneyed class that pays almost no taxes; the privatization or elimination of human services; the elimination of public education for low-income people; the easing of restrictions against child labor; the exporting of industries and jobs to low-wage, free-trade countries; the breaking of labor unions; and the elimination of occupational safety and environmental controls and regulations.” PeopleHumansChildrenHas BeensCountryStatesJobsForceGoalUnitedPayClassUnited StatesGrowingPolicyIndustryTaxesLowsLaborThirdsSafetyTradeUnionsEnvironmentalConservativeIncomeForeign PolicyRegulationRestrictionEliminationFree TradePublic EducationLabor UnionLow IncomePrivatizationChild LaborExportingHuman ServiceUnderemployed Author:Michael Parenti
“After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.” ChildrenSocialInterestEconomicPolicyAdvantageLaborDespiteFirmEmployedAbolishChild LaborSocial PolicyChild Labour Author:Barry Commoner
“Christian socialism”). This is a difficult concept for modern liberals to grasp because they are used to thinking of the progressives as the people who cleaned up the food supply, pushed through the eight hour workday, and ended child labor. But liberals often forget that the progressives were imperialists, at home and abroad. They were the authors of Prohibition, the Palmer Raids, eugenics, loyalty oaths, and, in its modern incarnation, what many call “state capitalism.” PeopleThinkingChildrenStatesHomeChristianUsedDifficultHoursForgetModernConceptsCapitalismLaborEightLoyaltySocialismIncarnationOathProhibitionEugenicsChild LaborFood Supply Author:Jonah Goldberg
“New legislation has just been adopted by the International Labour Organization on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, such as bonded labour, prostitution and hazardous work.” ChildrenFormWorstLaborOrganizationInternationalLabourLegislationAdoptedProstitutionChild LaborChild Labour Author:Carol Bellamy
“Child labor becomes a label of condemnation in spite of its ancient function as the quickest, most reliable way to human independence” WayHumansChildrenLaborFunctionIndependenceAncientLabelsSpiteCondemnationChild Labor Author:John Taylor Gatto
“Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth and other social problems.” ChildrenProblemSocialGrowthPovertyLaborPopulationUnemploymentIlliteracySocial ProblemsPopulation GrowthChild LaborChild LabourPopulation Problem Author:Kailash Satyarthi
“Charles Kernaghan is a legitimate American hero... Through his determination he has forced the leadership in our country and many other countries around the world to pay attention. Kernaghan has done more to expose child labor than has the whole Department of Labor that has a budget of hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars, because he has the guts and determination to do it.” WorldChildrenCountryDoneWholePayAttentionMillionsHeroDeterminationLaborImpactDollarsOur CountryAround The WorldPay AttentionBudgetsDepartmentGutsOther CountriesChild LaborAmerican Hero Author:Bernie Sanders
“A lot of work still remains but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.” ChildrenStillsEndsLaborSlaveryRemainsLifetimeChild LaborSlave LaborChild LabourSlave Labour Author:Kailash Satyarthi
“Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply pay attention, show quite clearly that they experience parental love, pain, and the desire for freedom, just as we do.” IfsHumansChildrenShowsPainDesirePayAttentionRightsTheoryLaborSlaverySpeciesPay AttentionWomens RightsAbolishParentalParental LoveChild LaborLove PainChild Labour Author:Ingrid Newkirk