Bonded Child Labor in the Beedi Industry in India
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Bonded Child Labor in the Beedi Industry in India "My sister is ten years old. Every morning at seven she goes to the bonded labor man, and every night at nine she comes home. He treats her badly; he hits her if he thinks she is working slowly or if she talks to the other children, he yells at her, he comes looking for her if she is sick and cannot go to work. I feel this is very difficult for her...For six hundred rupees I can bring her home...We don't have six hundred rupees...we will never have six hundred rupees." - Nine-year-old beedi (cigarette) roller. India has the largest number of working children in the world ranging from incredible numbers of sixty to one hundred and fifteen million children. They have been working since they were small children, around four or five years old. When they hit adulthood, many of...

