child labourer

  • 1Child labour in the diamond industry — is a widely reported and criticized issue on diamond industry for using child labour in diamond mines and polishing procedures in poor conditions mainly in India and Africa. In these mines, children come in contact with minerals, oil and… …

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  • 2Child labour — The first general laws against child labour, the Factory Acts, were passed in Britain in the first half of the 19th century. Children younger than nine were not allowed to work and the work day of youth under the age of 18 was limited to twelve… …

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  • 3Child labour in India — Young boy stacking plates in Bangalore The problem of child labor exploitation is a major challenge to the progress of developing countries. Children that are very young work at the cost of their right to education which leaves them permanently… …

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  • 4Honest Labourer (ballad) — The Honest Labourer , The Jolly Thresher , Poor Man, Poor Man or The Nobleman and the Thresher is a traditional English Folk ballad (Roud #19) [http://library.efdss.org/cgi bin/query.cgi?index roud=on cross=off type=Song access=off op 9=or field… …

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  • 5St. Isidore the Labourer —     St. Isidore the Labourer     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► St. Isidore the Labourer     A Spanish daylabourer; b. near Madrid, about the year 1070; d. 15 May, 1130, at the same place. He was in the service of a certain Juan de Vargas on a farm in …

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  • 6Oliver Twist — For other uses, see Oliver Twist (disambiguation). Oliver Twist …

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  • 7Om Prakash Gurjar — For the actor, see Om Prakash Om Prakash Gurjar (born 3 July 1992) is a former child labourer from Rajasthan who won the International Children s Peace Prize for 2006. At the age of five, he was taken away from his parents and for three years he… …

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  • 8Mule scavenger — Part of an 1835 engraving showing a mule scavenger at work Scavengers were employed in 18th and 19th century cotton mills to clean and recoup the area underneath a spinning mule. The cotton wastage that gathered on the floor was seen as too… …

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  • 9John Doherty (trade unionist) — John Doherty (1798 1854) trade unionist, radical and factory reformer who devoted his life to political and social reform. Born in Buncrana, Donegal, Ireland he married his wife Laura in 1821 and had four children before dying aged 56 of… …

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  • 10Zwelinzima Vavi — Infobox Person name = Zwelinzima Vavi caption = birth date = Unknown date birth place = Hanover, Northern Cape death date = death place = other names = known for = occupation = Trade union leaderZwelinzima Vavi is General Secretary of Congress of …

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