The Physical and Physiological Effects of Child Labor

Abstract

As chairman of the local committee I desire to express our deep appreciation of the efforts of the National Child Labor Committee to secure a model child labor law for the District of Columbia. I deem it a special privilege to preside over one of the sessions of its meeting when the subject for discussion is &dquo;New Legislation, with special reference to the needs of the District of Columbia.&dquo; Child labor as a menace to industry, education, good citizenship and to the health of the children has been forcefully presented in most effective and instructive addresses, and will doubtless be

Securing Childhood : An Attempt To Regain The Lost World of Innocence from The Inhuman Practice of “Child Labor” In India

“…(Blake, "The Chimney Sweeper", Experience, ll. [5][6][7][8] In both the poems we find the inhuman tortures of the master class showering upon the infants who, though "scarcely could cry weep", is forced to become expert in the art of sweeping the chimneys. It"s indeed very painful to visualize the "little black thing among the snow" in the Experience poem, whose parents seems to be "quite satisfied" with "it"s profession" and hence worships the diabolical trinity for the well being of their "earning child".…”