WHAT DO CHILD LABORERS DO?

WHAT DO CHILD LABORERS DO?

Work ranges from taking care of animals and planting and harvesting food, to many kinds of small manufacturing (e.g. of bricks and cement), auto repair, and making of footwear and textiles.

A large proportion of children whom the ILO classifies as child laborers work in agriculture.

See Child Labour: Targeting the Intolerable (1998) "Every Child Counts" (2002) and other ILO publications (http://www.ilo.org).

More boys than girls work outside their homes. But more girls work in some jobs: for instance, as domestic maids.

Being a maid in someone’s house can be risky. Maids typically are cut off from friends and family, and can easily be physically or sexually abused by their employers.

Note: Less than 5% of child laborers make products for export to other countries. Sources for this statistic include Unicef’s State of the World’s Children Report 1997.