“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