Key question:
What are the different types of Child labour?
What are the different types of Child Labour?
How is the work that children do put into groups?
What type of work is in each group?
Where do children have to do this work?
Is all this work safe for the children to be doing?
The types of jobs that children do depend on the age of the child, kinds of work available for adults and the geographical environment.
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Agricultural Child Labour |
- 69 per cent of all working children under 15 years of age in the world are in the agricultural sector, which includes harvesting crops and caring for livestock. Some of these children and adolescents work with their families and live at home. Others work outside the family for local employers or landowners.
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| Manufacturing Child Labour |
Children also work in manufacturing, producing a variety of goods: clothes, toys, matches, footballs, etc. Most of these units of production are small and employ intensive labour. Children may also produce goods in their homes, making simple objects, or even whole carpets, such as the Eye to Eye children in Pakistan.
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| Industrial Child Labour |
Children’s work in this sector includes mining, factory work and construction. Of the total number of working children in the world, nine per cent work in the industrial sector. Such work is likely to be hazardous.Unfortunately many children are injured while working in factories and construction.
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| Domestic and services Child Labour |
This broad category includes children who work as domestic workers in other peoples’ homes, or who work in restaurants, hotels and shops, in small workshops, or do jobs like cleaning shoes or work as porters in the market, or who work with their families at home (for example a family-run shop). Children who work in the street are often sellers of a vast array of small items. Many of these children live at home with their families, but some live in the street with little or no contact with their families.
How does looking at these pictures make you feel?
Groupwork:
Discuss the difference between the work that you do and the work that the children do in pictures above, or the description of work they do in the text. The following questions might help your discussion:
- Explain the type of work that you do.
- How long might you work for?
- Where do you do most of your work?
- Does anybody help you?
- Does your work cause any pain?
- Do you ever feel like you are not able for thw work you are given?
- Have you ever felt mistreated by the person who had asked you to do a job?
- Would you like to do any of the work like the children in the pictures above? Why? Why not?
Now, in pairs:
Take two images from those above, each student should take one each. Imagine that you are the child in the picture. Tell your partner how you are feeling, tell them about the work you are doing and if you do or do not enjoy it.
What might someone do to for you to change your day and make you feel happy?
