Child labor are very popular during the Industrial revolution because they have many advantages. First, because of the requirement of the nation, more and more children have to leave school and start their ‘working journey’. “The educational reformers of the mid-nineteenth century convinced many among the native-born population that primary school education was a necessity for both personal fulfillment and the advancement of …show more content…
Children were useful as laborers because their size allowed them to move in small spaces in factories or mines where adults couldn’t fit, children were easier to manage and control and perhaps most importantly, children could be paid less than adults.”(History.com Staff). The reason why child labor is wide using by the employer are they have more advantages than normal workers. Because they are young, they are easier to be controlled and follow employer’s instruction strictly. When they normal workers are asked to do some hard works, usually they will complain about the work and even stop doing the work. But for the child labors, they won’t have any complain about the work because they don’t know the situation very much. Their body also provide a huge convenient for their employers. For example if their work need them to work in a tiny place like the mine, they can work in such place easily which make them doing many additional works. Although they doing much work than normal workers, they don’t get higher salary than normal workers. Instead of this, they are paid less than than normal workers. According to all of these, it’s very clear to see why the child labors are so popular. They can bring much more benefit to the employers but paid less than …show more content…
Although the International Labour Organization (ILO) at its foundation in 1919 was established which use to abolish child labour, many illegal factories still employ child labour to work for them. These poor young children never have chance to go to school or to get knowledge from school. Most of them are very poor and slavery(Child labour). The most terrible place for child labors is Africa. “59 million children between the ages of 5 and 17 are involved with hazardous work.”(ILO). More than one over five of children in Africa are majored in the work on farm, in the mine or stone quarries. The main reason of that situation are because they are developing or not developed nations. For example in Sub-Saharan Africa, millions of children are child labor. The first reason is then they try to develop their nations, industry is the most part of their plans. In order to increase the speed of development, they have to employ workers as much as they can. So, they prefer to use the cheaper but easier child labors. The second reason, their teaching skills are not very great. So many children prefer to working when they are to support their family. This situation exist in many nation too. For example in China, because some families can’t afford the schools, many children have to give up their study and work in a factory when they are young. Most of these are caused by the development