Explore: Child Agricultural Laborers

urban areas. The activities of child laborers are diverse, however the majority of child laborers are involved in agricultural labor, and this activity varies

which added children in textile and other industries. Child labor remained common in the agricultural sector until compulsory school laws were enacted by

agriculture in 19th-century Switzerland, but also to the 1960s so-called Verdingkinder (literally: "contract children" or "indentured child laborers")

it is called child labor when it is forced. In 2012, the National Statistics Office said there were around 5.5 million child laborers aged 5–17 in the

German immigrants and Scots-Irish settlers began their careers as agricultural wage laborers. Merchants and artisans hired teen-aged indentured servants, paying

around 300,000 child laborer still worked in Switzerland. Verdingkinder (literally: "contract children" or "indentured child laborers") were children

collectively allow this system to persist. Agricultural and brick kiln workers, including child laborers, are the main Indians involved in this practice

Verdingkinder, Verdingsbuben, "contract children", or "indentured child laborers" were children in Switzerland who were removed from their families by

widely venerated as the patron saint of farmers, peasants, day laborers and agriculture in general, as well as brick layers. His hometown of Madrid, the

estimated that there were 218 million child laborers worldwide, with 7 of 10 working in agriculture To globally abolish child labor, ILO approximates an expense