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GLOBAL CHILD LABOR: PAST AS PROLOGUE By Hugh D. Hindman, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Labor & Human Resources Appalachian State University Boone, NC 28608 (828)262-2638 hindmanhd@appstate.edu Global child labor is correctly perceived as a problem of economically underdeveloped nations. But we know of no major advanced nation that did not go through a stage of pervasive child labor on the path to advancement. If pervasive child labor is viewed as predictable during certain stages of economic development, then the economic history of advanced nations may serve as guide to eradication of child labor in developing nations. My paper examines U.S. child labor history with the intent to identify lessons learned that might be applicable to global child labor today. My main thesis, that industrialization is cause of both the child labor problem and, later, cause of its eradication, is not entirely novel. Before industrialization, children generally worked, but their labor was not seen as a problem. The ideal-type arrangement involved...

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