Child labor is the act of forcing children into laborious work, with either low-wage salary or no payment at all. Children are tricked or kidnapped into factories and workshops, where they are constantly beat and are forced to work hard, some children for even 21 hours a day and seven days a week . They are treated like slaves and all the people care about is getting as much work out of the children as possible. They are preferred for labor because they are cheap, manageable, effective and less likely to strike. Child labor started long ago, before anyone could remember and has been going on for thousands of years. Fortunately, as time progressed, many concepts, ideas, and philosophies were changed, hopefully, for the better. But, it happens so that the notion of child labor remained a steadfast idea, that, even to this very day is used.

There are estimated 158 million children (about one in every six in the world) between the ages five and fourteen that are now being used for child labor. When things are made, labor is needed: to help haul timber, move heavy objects, clear the land, plow, water, and harvest crops, weave, mine, and putting together parts to create products. Many times, there is too much work and not enough people to do it. This resulted in children being used for much of the drudgery. Though it is now illegal, many people still force children to labor for them. Child labor is everywhere, but hidden from view in homes, backs of workshops, and out of sight in factories, where they labor day and night. They work in factories, workshops, fields, mines, mills, and many other places and are poorly treated. Child labor is used for the productions of many items that take long hard work to make like cigarettes, carpets, rugs, and matches. The children are usually either kidnapped, trapped, taken for debts, or going to a fake job where they would have easy work and good pay.