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CHILD LABOUR

Facts - Photos - Listening -
Activities -
Lesson plans - Webquests -
Games - Animations / Videos - Songs -
Posters - Cartoons

(Updated on 20/11/2011)

 


Related pages :

Slavery (civilization) - Slavery (history) - Queen Victoria and the Victorians

Human Rights

 

Facts :

 

 

  • High street retailers accused of exploiting workers in Asia - an article
    "Report claims Tesco, John Lewis, Levis and Asda are among UK firms denying factory workers a living wage...
    Any members of the Ethical Trading Initiative, an alliance of UK retailers and trade unions working to improve lives around the world,
    must sign up to a labour practice code which stipulates that working conditions should be safe and hygenic, that child labour is not used
    and that reasonable wages are paid."
    (guardian.co.uk)

  • US: End Child Labor in the Fields
    "Hundreds of thousands of children are employed as farmworkers in the United States, often working 10 or more hours a day.
    They are often exposed to dangerous pesticides, experience high rates of injury, and suffer fatalities...
    The Children’s Act for Responsible Employment (CARE Act) would update US law to ensure that all working children are protected equally."
    (kintera.org)

  • Products Of Slavery 
    "is an amazing online visualization of products throughout the world created through using child or forced labor."
    (productsofslavery.org)

 

  • Working children
    "If you were a child from a poor family at the beginning of the Victorian times, you worked and worked and worked..." 
    (woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk)

 

 

  • What is Child Labor?
    - Where does most child labor occur?
    - Child labor can be found in nearly every industry...
    "Educational materials containing introductory information on Child Labor, including Workshop Materials-Core Workshop on Child Labor and K-12 Teachers' Materials, are available through this web site.
    These materials include Power Point presentations , instructors' manuals, activities, and handouts."
    (continuetolearn.uiowa.edu)


  • Children in the Labor Force (scholastic.com)
    "The ILO considers hazardous child labor to be "work which, by its nature or the circumstances in which it is carried out,
    is likely to harm the health, safety, or morals of children."

 

  • IQBAL MASIH :

 

 

 

 

  • Hidden Lives Revealed (hiddenlives.org.uk)
    "provides an intriguing encounter with children who were in the care of The Children's Society in late Victorian and early 20th Century Britain.
    - with Activities    , for example :Virtual Children's Home
    "Navigate around a children's home and discover what day to day life was like through photographs and documents."

 

  • Victorians - Child Labour : Work / School / Play (BBC)
    (Learning - Games - Worksheets)


  • Child Labour - un dossier (antislavery.org)
    What is child labour?
    How big is the problem? Statistics
    Why do children work?
    Child trafficking
    Where do children work?
    Case studies from around the world
    What do children want?
    Child soldiers
    Action against child labour...

Photos :

 

 

 

Listening :

  • World Day Against Child Labor - ARTICLE + AUDIO
    "215 million children between the ages of 5 and 17 are caught in child labor throughout the world, often at the expense of their education."
    (voanews.com)

 

  • Iqbal Person of the week - Multiple-choice exercise
    (Annie Gwynn)



    The Song of Iqbal - the poem
    "My father sold me to a carpet man 
    I go to his factory at 4 am 
    I’m working all day as hard as I can 
    I’m just a child workin’ like a man..."
    (stopchildlabor.org)

 

 

Activities :

 

  • Image Detective
    "Read an image closely. Think critically about turn of the century America....
    Use this exercise to build students' skills in analyzing historical documents...
    Choose a picture to start :
    Immigration / Growing Cities / Industrialization / The West / Leisure and Amusement / Progressive Reform / Women and Suffrage / Children / World War I
    Method :
    Pose a question - Gather clues - Get background info - Draw a conclusion - See what others think
    (edc.org)

 

  • What is Child Labor?
    - Where does most child labor occur?
    - Child labor can be found in nearly every industry...
    "Educational materials containing introductory information on Child Labor, including Workshop Materials-Core Workshop on Child Labor and K-12 Teachers' Materials, are available through this web site.
    These materials include Power Point presentations , instructors' manuals, activities, and handouts."
    (continuetolearn.uiowa.edu)

 

 

 

  • Hidden Lives Revealed (hiddenlives.org.uk)
    "provides an intriguing encounter with children who were in the care of The Children's Society in late Victorian and early 20th Century Britain.
    - with Activities    , for example :Virtual Children's Home
    "Navigate around a children's home and discover what day to day life was like through photographs and documents."

 

  • Victorians - Child Labour : Work / School / Play
    (Learning - Games - Worksheets)

 

 

Lesson plans :

  • Séquence "Child Labour"
    (Patricia Venturini - Ac. Lyon)

    "SCENARIO : Child Labour/ Respect des droits de l’enfant.

    Tâche finale : Lors d’une conférence de presse, votre groupe intervient sur le travail des Enfants.
    Vous faites le compte-rendu d’un travail d’enfants dans un pays donné et vous donnez votre position.

    Tâche intermédiaire : Ecrire un article sur le travail d’enfants dans le pays choisi."


  • Kids Helping Kids: UNICEF Kit Teaches Kids About Child Labor (Education World)






Webquests :

  • Child labour - Webquest (webquestdirect.com.au)
    "The focus question of the webquest addresses the issue of child labour and how we, as global citizens, can help eliminate it. Students explore important themes surrounding child labour including human rights specifically children’s rights, poverty, education, global justice and global citizenship..." 

 

Games :

 

 

Animations / Videos :

 

 

  • Top 10 Cartoons for Children's Rights
    "Each PSA illustrates a right described in the global rights treaty, such as 'Freedom from Child Labour' or 'Protection from Neglect'.
    All the spots are non-verbal..."
    (UNICEF)

 

  • Child Labour (BBC World Report) - (Ac. Réunion) - UPDATED

 

Songs :

  • U.S. Child Labor, Dorsey Dixon, Babies In The Mill, Newport
    (YouTube)
    - the LYRICS
    "I used to be a factory hand when things was moving slow,
    When children worked in cotton mills, each morning had to go.
    Every morning just at five the whistle blew on time
    To call them babies out of bed at the age of eight and nine."
    (fortunecity.com)

 

 

Cartoons :

  • Child labor - 3 cartoons (filipspagnoli.wordpress.com)