The Japan Times2d ago
From the age of 10, Amina has been scrubbing, sweeping and cooking in a middle-class home in Pakistan's megacity of Karachi. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/14/asia-pacific/society/child-workers-pakistan/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #society #forcedlabor #childlabor #childabuse #pakistan
'I know it's immoral': Child workers still common in Pakistan

One in four households in a country of 255 million people employs a child as a domestic worker, mostly girls aged 10 to 14.

The Japan Times
MárciaWOct 9

@pivic
I have boycotted Nestle for ages and hope to see them brought to justice

https://utopia.org/guide/crime-controversy-nestles-5-biggest-scandals-explained/

#Ecocide #ChildLabor #Accountability #CorporateAccountability #Water

Crime & Controversy: Nestle's 5 Biggest Scandals Explained

Nestlé products are among the most maligned by ethically conscious consumers. But why? We'll take a quick look at what controversies give Nestlé such a bad rap.

Utopia
Audubon Ballroon (he/him)Oct 9

SC shared the text and video below.

"...boy molding blocks to pay his school fees..."

#blackchildren #childlabor #childlabour #blackmastodon

:blobcatverified2:Blobcat AppreciatorOct 6
Elites Always Say We Can’t Have Nice Things. They’re Wrong.

https://jacobin.com/2025/10/weekend-minimum-wage-unemployment-child-labor/

> All throughout American history, political and economic elites have insisted that better policies — ending child labor, establishing a weekend — were impossible to achieve. They were lying then, and they’re lying now.

#capitalism #labor #Jacobin #weekend #childlabor
MikeDunnAuthorSep 26

Today in Labor History September 26, 1874: Sociologist and photographer Lewis Hine was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. In 1908, he became the photographer for the National Child Labor Committee and spent the next decade documenting exploited child labor to help the organization’s lobbying efforts to end child labor in American industry. The book cover for my novel, Anywhere But Schuylkill, is based on a Hine photograph.

You can get a copy of Anywhere But Schuylkill from any of these indie retailers:
https://www.keplers.com/
https://www.greenapplebooks.com/
https://www.thehistoricalfictioncompany.com/product-page/anywhere-but-schuylkill-by-michael-dunn

Or send me $25 via Venmo (@Michael-Dunn-565) and your mailing address, and I will send you a signed copy!

#workingclass #LaborHistory #lewishine #children #childlabor #photography #exploitation #novel #historicalfiction #AnywhereButSchuylkill #author #writer #books @bookstadon

Laura G, Sassy 70’sSep 23
A young spinner at a yarn mill in Yazoo City, Mississippi, 1911, one of a series of photographs by Lewis Hine (1874-1940) documenting child labor for the National Child Labor Committee. Notice the children are barefoot, the adult is not. #photography #vintagephotography #labor #childlabor
The Internet is CrackSep 21

⚒️ Cobalt Comes at a Cost ⚒️

#CobaltMines #ChildLabor #EnvironmentalJustice #TheInternetIsCrack #podcast #bigtech #humanrights

Laura G, Sassy 70’sSep 12
A depiction of child labor, by Joan (sometimes spelled Juan) Planella y Rodríguez (1850-1910), The Working Girl (Nena Obrera, or La niña obrera), oil on canvas, 1889, Museu d'Historia de Catalunya, Barcelona. More in ALT. #arthistory #labor #childlabor #painting #oilpainting #Art
MikeDunnAuthorSep 6

Today in Labor History September 6, 1869: The Avondale fire killed 110 miners, including several juveniles under the age of 10. It led to the first mine safety law in Pennsylvania. Avondale is near Plymouth, Pennsylvania. The Susquehanna River flows nearby. The mine had only one entrance, in violation of safety recommendations at the time. In the wake of the fire, thousands of miners joined the new Workingmen’s Benevolent Association, one of the nation’s first large industrial unions (and precursor to the United Mineworkers and the Knights of Labor). The union was ultimately destroyed through infiltration and sabotage by the Pinkertons. My book, “Anywhere But Schuylkill,” opens with this fire. My main character, Mike Doyle, joins the bucket brigade trying to put out the flames shooting out of the mineshaft.

You can get a copy of Anywhere But Schuylkill from any of these indie retailers:
keplers.com/
https://www.greenapplebooks.com/
https://christophersbooks.com/
https://boundtogether.org//
https://www.historiumpress.com/michael-dunn

Or send me $25 via Venmo (@Michael-Dunn-565) and your mailing address, and I will send you a signed copy!

#workingclass #LaborHistory #mining #coal #avondale #disaster #workplacedeaths #workersafety #union #historicalfiction #novel #books #author #writer #anywherebutschuylkill #mining #childlabor @bookstadon

WIST QuotationsSep 5

A quotation from Will Rogers

I see a lot in the Papers about this 20th or Child Labor Amendment, and I have been asked how I stand on that. If Congress or the States would just pass one law, as follows, they wouldn’t need any Amendment: “EVERY CHILD, REGARDLESS OF AGE, SHALL RECEIVE THE SAME WAGE AS A GROWN PERSON.” That will stop your child labor.

Will Rogers (1879-1935) American humorist
Column (1924-12-28), “Weekly Article”

More info about this quote: wist.info/rogers-will/78804/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #willrogers #cheaplabor #childlabor #childhood #exploitation #labor #management #profit