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Child Labor, is a term used to represent the employment of minors generally, especially in work that may interfere with their education or endanger their health. Throughout the ages and in all cultures children joined with their parents to work in the fields, in the marketplace, and around the home as soon as they were old enough to perform simple tasks. The use of child labor was not regarded a social problem until the introduction …

…conditions of work. In the late 20th century, child labor remains a serious problem in many parts of the world. Studies carried out in 1979 show that more than 50 million children below the age of 15 were working in various jobs often under hazardous conditions. Their living conditions are crude and their chances for education minimal. In some countries, industrialization has created working conditions for children that rival the worst features of the 19th-century factories and mines.