Acute strain on the jobs market has encouraged some states to consider reducing restrictions on employing minors ...

Before the Industrial Revolution ... A photograph from 1910 showing child labour in cotton mills in Georgia, USA. Children were a cheap source of labour in textile factories, until using children ...

Nations cannot progress if their children are out of school. From the period of Enlightenment to the Industrial revolution, education has continuously reshaped the socioeconomic landscape of the world ...

After the industrial revolution began in Britain, lawmakers spent years debating whether and how to intervene over widespread child labour. Some argued that “any interference with the rights of ...

Labour set itself the ambitious goal today of halving child poverty over the next nine years. Chancellor Gordon Brown told a news conference: "Already one million have been taken out of poverty by ...

It also denied that children ineligible under the Factory Act, Industrial Health and Security ... of Som Distilleries had been suspended over child labour. Before this, officials connected with ...