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(Reuters) -A federal appeals court on Tuesday refused to hold five major technology companies liable over their alleged support for the use of child labor in cobalt mining operations in the ...
A 15-year-old boy was rescued from a Northern California mine shaft, officials said Monday. ... In Other News. ... Stock market today: Asian shares mostly dip despite S&P 500 adding to its record ...
The leader of an indigenous community in Peru asked for the government to declare a state of emergency on Monday and accused illegal miners of using children as "human shields" in the Amazon. He ...
A breaker boy was a coal-mining worker in the United States [1] and United Kingdom [2] whose job was to separate impurities from coal by hand in a coal breaker. Though boys were primarily children , elderly coal miners who could no longer work in the mines because of age, disease, or accident were sometimes employed as breaker boys. [ 3 ]
In these mines, children come in contact with minerals, oil and machinery exhaust. [1] In 1997, The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions claimed that child labour was prospering in the diamond industry in Western India, where the majority of the world's diamonds are cut and polished while workers are often paid only a fraction of 1% ...
Postol, Todd A. "Creating the American Newspaper Boy: Middle-Class Route Service and Juvenile Salesmanship in the Great Depression." Journal of Social History (1997) 31#2: 327–345. online; Staller, Karen M. New York's Newsboys: Charles Loring Brace and the Founding of the Children's Aid Society (Oxford UP, 2020).
The call to action, which began circulating on social media last week, encouraged immigrants to skip work, keep their children home from school and refrain from shopping Monday. Businesses across ...
Cal Coast News was founded in 2008 by Karen Velie, and Daniel Blackburn [citation needed]. Three time Pulitzer Prize winning journalist George Ramos was once an editor [ 3 ] who was also serving as the head of the journalism department at California Polytechnic State University . [ 4 ]