child labour

English

Child labour in Canada, c. 1905

Alternative forms

• child labor (US)

Noun

child labour (uncountable)

1. (British spelling, Canadian spelling) Work performed by a minor that is prohibited by statute law, or under terms and conditions considered inhumane.

Related terms

• labour law

Translations

work performed by children

• Afrikaans: kinderarbeid
• Albanian: puna e fëmijëve
• Arabic: عمالة الأطفال
• Armenian: մանկական աշխատանք (mankakan ašxatankʻ)
• Asturian: esplotación infantil f
• Basque: haurren esplotazio
• Bengali: শিশুশ্রম (śiśusrom)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 童工 (zh) (tónggōng)

• Czech: dětská práce f
• Danish: børnearbejde n
• Dutch: kinderarbeid (nl) m
• Esperanto: infanlaboro
• Estonian: lapstööjõud
• Finnish: lapsityö
• French: travail des enfants m
• Galician: traballo infantil m
• German: Kinderarbeit (de) f
• Greek: παιδική εργασία f (paidikí ergasía)
• Gujarati: બાળ કામદાર (bāḷ kāmdār)
• Hebrew: העסקת ילדים
• Hindi: बाल-श्रम (bāl-śram)
• Icelandic: barnaþrælkun f
• Indonesian: buruh anak, pekerja anak
• Interlingua: labor infantil
• Italian: lavoro infantile m
• Japanese: 児童労働
• Kannada: ಬಾಲಕಾರ್ಮಿಕ (bālakārmika)
• Macedonian: детски труд m (detski trud)
• Malayalam: ബാലവേല (bālavēla)
• Nepali: बालश्रम (bālaśram)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: barnearbeid n

  Nynorsk: barnearbeid n

• Pashto: د ماشوم مزدوري کول
• Persian: کودکان کار (kudakân-e kâr)
• Polish: praca dzieci f
• Portuguese: trabalho infantil (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਬਾਲ ਮਜ਼ਦੂਰੀ (bāl mazdūrī)
• Russian: де́тский труд m (détskij trud)
• Slovak: detská práca f
• Spanish: explotación infantil f, trabajo infantil m
• Swedish: barnarbete (sv)
• Tamil: குழந்தைத் தொழிலாளர் (kuḻantait toḻilāḷar)
• Telugu: బాల కార్మికులు (bāla kārmikulu)
• Thai: แรงงานเด็ก
• Turkish: çocuk işçiliği
• Ukrainian: дитяча праця f (dytjača pracja)
• Vietnamese: lao động trẻ em

See also

• child labour on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:child labour on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons