child labour

English

Child labour in sub-Saharan Africa, 2007

Child labour in South Carolina, 1908

Alternative forms

• child labor (US)

Pronunciation

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Noun

child labour (uncountable)

2. (British spelling, Canadian spelling) Work performed by a minor that is prohibited by statute law, or under terms and conditions considered inhumane (for example, long hours, age-inappropriate, physically demanding).

   Hypernyms: exploitation, abuse

Usage notes

The domain of a limited degree of youth employment that is societally considered age-appropriate and unharmful, such as after-school jobs and summer jobs for which working papers are granted (e.g., paperboy, papergirl, babysitter, family farming), is usually not included within the scope of this term's denotation except for when ironic humor is employed; for example, "Little Susie likes to help Daddy mow the lawn, and Daddy shamelessly abets this child labour."

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 (bn) (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)
• Korean: 아동 노동 (adong nodong)
• 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