Child Labor: Cause, Consequence, and Cure, with Remarks on International Labor Standards.

According to the Bureau of Statistics of the International Labor Organization, in 1995 at least 120 million of the world's children between the ages of five and fourteen years did full-time, paid work. In particular, children have worked in large numbers in factories from the time of the industrial revolution in Europe and from the mid-nineteenth century in America. laborers. This is caused, in part, by the increasing globalization of the world, which has brought not only more information about the condition of labor in different nations to academics and activists the world over, but also goods produced by children in faraway lands into the hands of consumers in high-income countries. The literature on child labor is enormous, but it is scattered across the social sciences and piecemeal, lacking a common theoretical foundation. The aim of this paper is to provide an analytical survey of this field, keeping in mind that this is an area where the primary reason for theorizing is ultimately to influence policy.