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A young spinner in Yazoo City boy at Turkey Knob Mine child labour
Two young boys work barefoot at large textile machines inside a factory, illustrating child labor in the United States during the early twentieth century.
Children hauling coal up the slope of an English mine; from an engraving of the 1840s.
See illustrator Joel Millerchip commissioned by Parliament to commemorate the Factory Act of 1833 with a banner, speaking of an event leading to its passage

child labour: References & Edit History

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Article History

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Modified link of Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Challenges and perspectives of child labor. Oct 30, 2026
Add new Web site: CORE - The Child Labor in Developing Countries: A Challenge to Millennium Development Goals (PDF). Dec 19, 2025
Add new Web site: CiteSeerx - Child Labor (PDF). Apr 24, 2025
Add new Web site: Academia - Child Labor (PDF). Apr 01, 2024
Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Challenges and perspectives of child labor. Nov 17, 2023
Add new Web site: EH.net - Child Labor during the British Industrial Revolution. Jul 07, 2023
Added cross-reference. Mar 08, 2023
Add new Web site: Canadian Encyclopedia - Child Labour. Jan 13, 2023
Add new Web site: British Library - Child labour. Nov 16, 2022
Removed media. Aug 15, 2022
Media added. Oct 01, 2021
Added cross-references. Sep 25, 2019
Corrected display issue. Jun 19, 2019
Add new Web site: Social Welfare History Project - Child Labor. Feb 28, 2019
Media added. Apr 14, 2017
Media added. Dec 08, 2016
Media added. Jun 03, 2016
Add new Web site: Buzzle.com - Child Labor. Jun 06, 2014
Add new Web site: The Victorian Web - Child Labor. Aug 04, 2010
Media added. May 15, 2007
Article revised and updated. Sep 22, 2006
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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