• This term typically focuses on abusive practices such as exploitative factory work; slavery, sale, and trafficking in children; forced or compulsory labor such as debt bondage and serfdom; and the use of children in prostitution, pornography, drug-trafficking, or anything else that might jeopardize their health, safety, or morals. Some writers restrict the term to activities forbidden by the International Labor Organization’s minimum-age conventions. See ILO Minimum Age Con-vention ch. 138 (1973). See FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT. Cf. CHILD WORK.
child labor
The employment of workers under the age of majority.