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Child Labor - Search View - MSN Encarta |
 | | Child Labor, designation formerly applied to the practice of employing young children in factories, now used to denote the employment of minors generally, especially in work that may interfere with their education or endanger their health. |
 | | But in 1922 the Child Labor Tax Law, as it was known, was ruled unconstitutional for being overtly “prohibitory and regulatory.” In 1924 both houses of Congress passed an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, empowering Congress to limit, regulate, and prohibit the labor of persons under 18 years of age. |
 | | In the late 20th century the ILO added to this list the worst forms of child labor, including slavery, prostitution, debt bondage (the practice of requiring children to work off loans made to their parents), and forced military service. |
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