Child labor is work performed by children that interferes with their ability to attend regular school or that is mentally, physically, socially or morally harmful to them, and it is prohibited by law across most of the world, with narrow exceptions such as child performers, family duties, supervised training, and some Amish and Indigenous community work. The practice was widespread in agriculture, factories, mining and services during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, especially among poorer families, and declined in wealthier nations as household incomes rose and child labor laws were enacted. It remains common in the world's poorest countries, particularly in agriculture and informal rural economies concentrated in sub-Saharan Africa, most often as children working for their own parents rather than in factories, driven chiefly by poverty and limited access to schooling. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Jurisdiction VariationExceptions to child labor prohibitions include work by child artists, family duties, supervised training, and some work by Amish children and Indigenous children in the Americas 1 Classification
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1. Child labour (Wikipedia)
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Child labour is any work children engage in that interferes with their ability to attend regular school, or is mentally, physically, socially and morally harmful. Such work is prohibited by legislation worldwide, although these laws do not consider all work by children as child labour; exceptions include work by child artists, family duties, supervised training, and some forms of work undertaken by Amish children, as well as by Indigenous children in the Americas.
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exceptions include work by child artists, family duties, supervised training, and some forms of work undertaken by Amish children, as well as by Indigenous children in the Americas
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