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Working children: the health and safety issue
Author(s) -
McKechnie Jim,
Hobbs Sandy,
Lindsay Sandra,
Lynch Margaret
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
children and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1099-0860
pISSN - 0951-0605
DOI - 10.1111/j.1099-0860.1998.tb00043.x
Subject(s) - occupational safety and health , vigilance (psychology) , work (physics) , psychology , environmental health , medicine , political science , engineering , law , mechanical engineering , neuroscience
Recent evidence has emerged that in Britain, like the US, many children below the official minimum school leaving age, are working. In many cases, the work is illegal. Research in the US suggests that many working children risk accidents and other hazards to health. Evidence from Britain on the health and safety aspects of child labour is of a more fragmentary nature, but enough exists to suggest a need for greater vigilance.