to such areas or industries as may be specified by the Central Government.
• According to The Child Labour (prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986
The Act has stated right in the beginning that its aim is to prohibit the engagement of children in certain employment and to regulate the conditions of work of children in certain employment and to regulate the conditions of work children in certain other employments’.
After enactment of this Act, the Employment of Children Act, 1938 is repealed. All rules made in this Act will be in addition to the provisions of the Factories Act, 1948, the Plantations Labour Act, 1951 and the Mines Act, 1952.
1. According to the definition of this Act “child” means a persons who has not completed his fourteenth year of age.
2. Again, family units and training centers are not included in the purview of the Act.
3. The Act provides for the setting up of “Child Labour Technic Advisory Committee” for the purpose of additional of occupations and processes to the schedule. A notice of at least¬ three months will be given by the Central Government before adding any occupation or process to the schedule.
4. The Act clearly lays down that no child will be allowed to work for more than six hours per day with a rest period of one hour after three hours of work. Once a week he will be given a holiday.
5. No child will be allowed to
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The Government in the Act of 1986 gives itself the time of 10 years in which, it claims; it will abolish the serious problem of child labour. The Government has had enough power to deal firmly with employers violating the provisions of the Children Act of 1938, Factories Act of 1948, Minimum Wages Act, etc. for the past forty years, and yet this abhorrent exploitation continues. How does the Government now feel that they can do away with this problem in 10 years’ time? The enforcement of the new legislation has again been left in the hands of Inspectors who have provided rather ineffective through all these
The children may work enough to provide for their families, however they have minimal time to be a child. This proves that the government, in personified form, is a giver of the law, who creates laws that can be interpreted as a success at the expense of the children who live this reality. As a result, the government signed a law that “required women and [children] to stop work at six,” which was a significantly improved version of the inhumane work schedules (lines 41-42). The same government that placed sensible limits on the egregious system which oppressed children, made a mistake. The government “took a long backward step” when it repealed the law that brought relief to oppressed children (line 40).
This eventually lead to the implement of child labor laws due to unfit and harsh
(Document 7). This shows that some children weren’t properly cared for in their job. They later made rules to better the working environment for men and women. Children also started working at a very young age. For instance,” C:
Therefore, the innovative Industrial Revolution was an enormous improvement throughout Great Britain, regardless of the negativities it caused. The Revolutionary act in 1780 in England would not have been fulfilled without the help of hundreds of men, women, and children sparing dangerously long hours in factories or mines. Even though the work was tough, these people were essential in the rise of the Industrial Revolution. Document one of the evidence exemplifies the use of child labor in England, through a simple interview.
During the Progressive Era, there were many issues surrounding labor, the food industry,and trusts. The Labor Union began to protest for better working conditions and hours, along with child labor laws. The Federal Government and the reformers had to act, and bring about reform through the nation. But the real question is whether or not they were effective in doing so. One of the main issues of the working industry that came to light was the terrible state of the meat packing industry.
In the Factory Act, it states, “no person under eighteen years of age shall [work] between half-past eight in the evening and half-past five in the morning.” This law helped place restrictions on who could work during these night hours and the amount of work the children could achieve. The Factory Act also placed laws that made it illegal, except in mills for silk production, to employ children have not completed their ninth year in school. (Document 4) This is because, by the ninth year, children are already being trained to work in the factories and mills for when they need a job and are already trained.
A few states passed laws prohibiting child labor, but the states were placed with restrictions at an economic disadvantage. It was unjust for children 16 and under to work eight hours a day, overnight, or more than six days a week. Congress passed the Keating-Owen Act of 1916 in response to these concerns. This law hindered factories that employed children by ceasing their shipment across state lines.
This Act was created as a result of the Great Depression in 1929. The National Industrial Recovery Act was created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who actively tried to regulate and stop child labor. This Act created rules that companies had to abide by. No children under eighteen could work in what were considered dangerous occupations, and children ages fourteen to sixteen could only work for three hours a day and in smaller less hazardous occupations, and only during the summer months. (Burgan)
The Industrial Revolution created factories for businesses to grow and produce consumer goods. The factories hired many child workers and had them work in dangerous working conditions. Many people, usually inspectors and reporters, had noticed the troubled and hazardous state that many small children were working in. They’ve contributed to the recognition of the dangerous working conditions to the Parliament. This later resulted in the Parliament granting factory workers, the Factory Acts, and the School Sites Acts.
“Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time” (Grace Abbott). The issue of child labor has been around for centuries. Its standing in our world has been irrevocably stained in our history and unfortunately, our present. Many great minds have assessed this horrific issue and its effect on our homes, societies, and ultimately, our world.
Children had to work 14 hours a day, and had hardly any breaks, and had no time for school. This is stated in Document D, which states, “ that in many mills, they are forced to work thirteen, fourteen, or fifteen hours per day, and that they have not time either for play or education.” The hours they worked left no time for education, or for play as stated in Document C, “Our regular time was from five in the morning till nine or ten at night; and on Saturday, till eleven, and often twelve o’clock at night, and then we were sent to clean the machinery on the Sunday.” Being able to play and go to school is a important part in child
After reading Upton Sinclair’s book, The Jungle, child labor, urbanization, industrialization and immigration are problem quite sore during 1880-1910 period. Firstly, the future of the world depends on the child. However, the lives of children today are causing people to worry about. According to the Labor Law, provisions on workers be aged 16 years or older, able to work, working under labor contracts, paid and subject to the management and administration of the employer.
While children from the ages of 5 and 6 weren’t included in the census, they still worked the same shifts as the older kids, which were 18-20 hours a day, 6 days a week. During the Progressive Era, these conditions improved dramatically for the children working, and for all the other workers as well. In 1904, a group of reformists created the National Child Labor Committee, and started lobbying to end the abuse that was child labor. Eight years later, a Children’s Bureau was established to examine all matters pertaining to the welfare of children (“Working Conditions in Factories (Issue),” 2000). President Woodrow Wilson later signed for the Tax on
Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 These Act inform practices that all staff the responsibility to keep themselves and other around them safe through their actions at work and they must to report any health and safety problems. Also, all staff must to follow policies and procedure when hand handing equipment and they should to work in way that puts other around them in danger. Control of substances and Hazardous to Health Regulations 1992 These regulations inform practices that cleaning materials must to be kept in a locked cupboard. Also, these regulation state that disposable gloves and aprons must to be provided for cleaning and handing chemicals.
But not all work done by children should be accepted as child labor. In other words, if a work doesn’t harm child’s health or personal development (educational issues), it is generally accepted as something positive and useful. Such activities develop children’s skills, provide experience and formulate them to be part of society. The term “Child Labor” is when children do work that damages their health or hamper mental or physical