Children do not only play. They also work in some parts in the world today. Child labor was once a much larger number of children forced to work. However, 200 million children are said to be still laborers. The 200 million children are categorized as nine year old coal miners, eight year old prostitutes, and of little girls who work twelve hour shifts in sweatshops.
             In most of these sweatshops, they are forced to eat, sleep and work in the same stuffy overcrowded room with strict silence for six a.m. to midnight. They are given a severe punishment for not following every single rule. These children are robbed of their childhood & work up to eighteen hours daily, seven days a week.
             In the past, Children have been used as workers for thousands of years in countries around the world. Child labor first started in the late seventeen and early eighteen hundreds. Industrialization played a major reason why the number of working children increased. Children have worked in factories, mines, fields and in the streets. They were used for picking cotton, shinning shoes, selling newspapers, canning fish, making clothes & woving fabrics.
             Children in the United States continued working under poor conditions until the middle of the twentieth century. The early nineteen hundreds brought reformers to search for a way to raise awareness about the extreme dangers of child labor & tried to establish a law against it. In 1938 The Fair labor standards act was passed that freed children from the grim of dangerous work.
             Child Labor had decreased dramatically in the United States over the past fifty years; young people around the world continue to serve as child laborers. Africa, Asia, Central America & South America have the highest rate of child labor. There is still a serious amount of children who are migrant farm workers & sweatshop worke
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