Child Labor

Approximately 248-million children work at the bottom of the global economy. Modern-day child labor ranges from illegal agricultural work on migrant farms in the United States to forced servitude in carpet factories in Nepal. And despite child labor laws and international sanctions, products made at the hands of children ages 5-to-14 still find their way into the domestic economy. Host Connie Walker talks to Len Morris, director of the documentary “Stolen Childhoods”; Reed Maki, director of the Children in the Fields Campaign; and Gerald Friedman, professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Listener Call-In. (40:00)

Child Labor

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