People in the rich world tend to assume that child labor, like
             slavery, is something that was abolished a century ago and that now only
             exists in third world countries. This can not be any further from the
             reality of this issue. In fully developed countries like Canada and the
             United States, parents encourage their children to have a job at an
             early age, as a way of letting their children gain experience of the
             real world. Few people see it as exploite that a child should work
             (for example to have a paper route) even if they are paid less than
             adult wages and local child-labour laws are infringed by their working
             before seven in the morning and after seven o'clock in the evening.
             'Child labour' in general is too explosive and negative a word to be
             applied to all children workers. It is insulting to those whose lives
             are ruined by hard labor to lump them into the same category as those
             children who help out in the family shop after school. If people treat
             all work by children as equally unacceptable they are trivializing the
             whole issue and making it less likely to be able to root out the most
             damaging forms of child labor. It is simply the nature and conditions
             of children's work that determines whether they are exploited, not the
             plain fact of their work age. Another term that is too loosely used in
             the business world and elsewhere is that of a 'sweatshop'. The term
             'sweatshop' stems from the word sweating, originally used in the late
             19th century America. It was thought to describe "a subcontracting
             system in which the middlemen earned their profit from the margin
             between the amount they received for a contract and the amount they paid
             workers". This margin was said to be 'sweated' from the workers because
             they received minimal wages for excessive hours worked under unsanitary
             Unlike some problems that are just surfacing in the world today and are
             not too p...