YOU'VE seen them in the novels of Charles Dickens and the proletarian novelists of 1930s America, books that deal with child laborers in the factories and fields. Harnessing child labor prevents them ...

Child labor continues to persist within the fishing and aquaculture sectors primarily due to poverty, a practice the Department of Labor and Employment (Dole) hopes to end by 2028 as it seeks to ...

SAN JOSE, Tarlac (PIA) — Various government agencies and institutions signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) establishing the Regional Council Against Child Labor (RCACL) in Central Luzon. It seeks to ...

PUERTO PRINCESA CITY, Palawan (PIA)—While the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) observes a decrease in cases of child labor in the Philippines, it continues to ramp up information drives.

New national campaign targets top meat processors Perdue, JBS, Tyson, and Cargill for child labor violations. Effort includes grassroots mobilization, consumer petition, and advocacy to strengthen ...

Journalist records squalidness, allegedly at Gap Indian subcontractor plant. LONDON, Oct. 28, 2007 — -- The multi-billion dollar global fashion company Gap has admitted that it may have ...

The problem of kids working in dangerous slaughterhouses continues to be a concern as the Labor Department announced its third agreement this week with a company in the industry agreeing to pay a ...

Introduction : child labor as a social and economic problem -- Industrialization of child labor -- Child labor reform : the change after the change -- Children in the coal mines -- Light manufacturing ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo is rich with lithium, an essential mineral for electric car batteries. JUNIOR KANNAH/AFP—Getty Images In crude mines across Central and Sub-Saharan Africa, hands that ...

Child labor protections in America are being challenged at the state level and, in some cases, reversed in ways we haven’t seen in decades. In 2022 and 2023, Arkansas, Iowa, New Hampshire, and New ...