“Child labour perpetuates poverty,
unemployment, illiteracy, population
growth and other social problems.”
Kailash Satyarthi
“Child labour and poverty are inevitably
bound together and if you continue to use
the labour of children as the treatment
for the social disease of poverty, you will
have both poverty and child labour to the
end of time.”
Grace Abbott
“Females and children may be counted
upon to work for small wages, to submit
to petty exasperating exactions and to
work uncomplainingly for long hours.”
Royal Commission on the Relations of Labour
and Capital, 1889