Child labour in Switzerland

Child labour in Switzerland was a fact in rural areas to the 1960s, at least tolerated by the Swiss authorities referring to the so-called Verdingkinder,[1] as up to 100,000 children were needed as cheap workers mostly on farms the decades before.[2]

Straw weaving family in a farmhouse, oil on canvas, 1840
  1. ^ Thomas Gull (2008-10-13). "Kinderabeit" (in German). HDS. Retrieved 2014-11-16.
  2. ^ Tony Wild (2014-11-10). "Slavery's Shadow on Switzerland". The New York Times. Retrieved 2014-11-16.