The exceptions are spelled out in the US. (Each state has it's own regulations within what is allowed by federal law.) Children may work as entertainers, on family farms and in some cases with family businesses. read more
Child labor in the United States grabbed my attention while viewing the movie Stolen Childhoods. In the book Child Labor: A Global View, Pamela Pieris states that, “that term child labor is commonly used to denote employment that is harmful to a child’s physical, cognitive, emotional, social, and moral development” (186). read more