A majority of the children worked during the Industrial Revolution since income was low and their families required the funds to survive. As the 20th century moved forward, more and more societies also started to industrialize. As it spread, a gap started to grow between those nations, which had fully industrialized, and the ones that were starting to industrialize. Rich, industrialized (developed) nations subjugated the world economy, leaving less industrialized nations behind. Largely due to widespread poverty, most worlds’ children workers currently work and live in less-industrialized states (Edmonds, 2007). Very few issues in developing states draw as much admired concentration as does child labor. The aim of this paper is to offer a thorough overview of the state of the current empirical literature on why and how children labor and the consequences of their labor.

Poverty is the status of lacking a certain amount of material assets, as well as money. Total poverty or impoverishment refers to the lack or deprivation of basic human needs, which usually includes food, sanitation, water, clothing, healthcare, shelter, and education. Virtual poverty is defined contextually as the financial disparity in the society or location in which citizens live (Edmonds, 2007). Child labor is the enrollment of toddlers in any work, which deprives them of their childhood, obstructs with their capacity to attend a normal school, and that is physical, mentally, morally or socially harmful and dangerous (Kirby, 2005). The industrial revolution, on the other hand, was the changeover to new manufacturing procedures in the period from about 1700 to sometime between 1800 and 1860.