Compulsory education and child labour: historical lessons, contemporary challenges and future directions

Working Draft by Alex FyfeThere is a growing recognition that child labour elimination and the achievement of universal basic education are interrelated challenges ¿that one cannot be achieved without the other. The central place of education in combating child labour has its historical roots in the nineteenth and early twentieth century campaigns in industrial countries. These campaigns, in which the labour movement played a central role, focused on minimum age regulations linked to education