Child labour in Switzerland

Child labour in Switzerland was a fact in rural areas to the 1960s that was at least tolerated by the Swiss authorities referring to the so-called Verdingkinder, as up to 100,000 children were needed as cheap workers mostly on farms the decades before. == Definition == Child labour refers to the employment of children in any work that deprives children of their childhood; interferes with their ability to attend regular school; and is mentally, physically, socially or morally dangerous and harmful.

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