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Young girl in a cotton spinning mill in Newberry, South Carolina, around 1908. There are no photos from factory child labour in Switzerland from that time Lewis W. Hine
The United Nations has declared 2021 the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour. Making children work has been outlawed in Switzerland since the 19th century.
This content was published on February 27, 2021 - 11:00 February 27, 2021 - 11:00 Ester Unterfinger
Trained as a picture journalist at the MAZ media school in Lucerne. Since 2000 she has worked as a picture editor in various media concerns and as a freelancer. Since 2014 she has been with swissinfo.ch.
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During the industrial revolution, children slaved away in Swiss factories to the point of collapse. A political outsider is to thank for the fact that child labour was banned relatively early.
'Workers sought: Two big working families with children capable of work will be well cared-for at a spinning works.' With this advertisement placed in the Anzeiger von Uster gazette, a Swiss factory owner was looking for employees in the 1870s.
It was a matter of course that the children of labourers had to work too. Child labour was nothing new when the first factories opened, but the industrial revolution turned it from a day-to-day reality into exploitation.
Peasants and home-workers saw their children primarily as labourers before the industrial revolution. The family was first and foremost a labour unit; working children were essential for its livelihood.
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