The phrase "child labor force" is correct and usable in written English.
This phrase is used to describe the workforce composed of children who are employed in various businesses and jobs. For example, "Underaged children make up a surprisingly large proportion of the developing world's child labor force."
Use of a short module compared with a more detailed questionnaire has a statistically significant effect, especially on child labor force participation rates, and, to a lesser extent, on working hours.
For years, Western labor activists have taken aim at China's manufacturing industry, exposing hundreds of exploitive factories that employ child labor, force workers to toil as many as 100 hours a week without overtime pay or benefits, and violate labor and safety rules.
Baez and Santos (2007) estimate that as a consequence of Hurricane Mitch in Nicaragua, child labor force participation increases in 8.5 percentage points (p.p).
In the last three years, an intensive human rights advocacy campaign has led the state to dramatically decrease its child labor force, which often included students as young as seven.
Those standards are the right to form unions and bans on child labor, forced labor and discrimination.
In this case, each of the world's countries is placed into one of several "tiers" of performance on the issues of child soldiering, child labor, forced prostitution, and so on.
The report "found no evidence of child labor, forced labor or sexual harassment but did discover problems in some plants with overtime payments, hours of work and anti-union discrimination" the agency said in a statement on its Web site.
The agreement would have committed all parties to the International Labor Organization's principles prohibiting child labor, forced labor and excessive hours, and requiring collective bargaining, a minimum wage and safe workplaces.
But Apple has acknowledged in its own audits that some of its suppliers in China violate Apple's own code of conduct, with instances of child labor, forced overtime and unsafe working conditions and evidence that employees are sometimes exposed to hazardous and toxic chemicals.
After decades of adult complacency dominated by a false assumption that progress to end child exploitation whether it be child labor, forced marriage, or discrimination against girls was only a matter of time and somehow inexorable, it is the victims of the world's inaction who are forcing the world to wake up to the reality that change will only happen if it is made to happen.
According to the Eurosif report, this has led to an improvement in issues such as child labor, forced labor, occupational health and safety.
