Inquiry question for non fiction.

     Sally Green burg of the National Consumers League notes that "child labor perpetuated a cycle of poverty "and what this means is that the two issues were linked. This cycle is still in effect today in places without child labor laws. The only way to break this cycle is to place labor laws to prevent the the usage of a child workforce.

     Child labor started a cycle of poverty, because families still kept the practices they had when they were farmers this included working with their families.Then factory owners only hired children for cheap labor and their relunctance to speak against their bosses. The passage even states "Factory owners liked hiring children for their nimble fingers and relunctance to complain. They could also pay them less". Some examples of pay were boys as old as eight separating coal and slate in hazardous conditions for one to three dollars a week. This lead to a lack of jobs because children were prefered and due to low pay the children couldn't support the family.

      This cycle is till in effect today In India recently a photo was was taken of an eight year old shoveling coal in northeast India. There are also many children still hired outside our country. The National Consumers League reported that there are 250 million children under the age of sixteen who are working mainly in factories or mines. Periodic exposes  shows how many children worked in garment factories for popular brands in the U.S

      This cycle can only be stopped by removing child labor and placing laws to make sure this doesn't happen there should be a serious fine that is more than the profit made. There is also a need for regular checks to. The national consumers league is correct and we are lucky that child labor is banned in the states  with exceptions such as agriculture. It is still an issue outside the issue and American industries are taking others countries' lack of labor laws to bypass ours. This is unacceptable because they are still hiring children. In conclusion there is still child labor and only other countries can solve this for themselves because as Sallly Greenburg said child labor states a cycle of poverty.