New legislation has just been adopted by the International Labour Organization on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, such as bonded labour, prostitution and hazardous work.
After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.
You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong.
We passed the Children's Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.
Yes to trade, but trade that ensures that these other countries that trade with us aren't engaging in child labor.
It's a collective truth that slavery is wrong, that child labor is wrong, that gross inequality is wrong. God didn't send it.
