Child Labor Jobs
Take a minute to look at the clothes you have on. Who do you think made the cool jersey, the warm jacket or the pants you are wearing? Do you think that these clothes just magically appear in the store that you bought them from? Well this is not what happens. Would you ever have thought that kids your age, kids even under the age of 5 made the clothes that you have on this very second? These kids who made the clothes work in dangerous places such as factories with very bad air pollution just to make the clothes you are wearing! Making clothes is one of the many harmful, awful, and cruel jobs that the children in child labor have to suffer through. Some of these poor, innocent children are not even five years old. There is an estimate of 120 million children in these awful work environments. Some of these children die in these awful factories because of the hazardous work. Some of these children work up to 12 hours a day. Child labor must stop because all children deserve, a home, a life, a family, and an education. These jobs are not only dangerous but so is the location. Some jobs are in harmful factories, on filthy streets and outside in the disgusting, polluted air. Common jobs include doffers, spinners, and sweepers, these jobs are all in North Carolina and these children did not get paid.
Doffers
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A doffer will remove a spool which is surrounded by dangerous machines and will replace it with a new spool. A doffer needs to be fast while doing this job so the spinning machines won’t hurt him. While the Spools are becoming dirty the doffers have long breaks.The boys must climb on machines to exchanged the spools on higher machines. The doffers would have to move quit while doing this job and have no shoes or socks on while doing so.