What Kind of Work & Working Conditions Are Acceptable?

Read each item below; Rate each statement using the drop-down menu to the left of the statement, with"0" being completely unacceptable and "10" being completely acceptable.

A) A 13-year-old girl takes out the trash, washes dishes each night, and mows the lawn once a week in the summer. She receives a $10/week allowance if all chores are completed.
B) A 12-year-old boy picks oranges for 8 hours a day, 6 days a week throughout the winter/spring harvest period, and is paid a piece rate which on average adds up to $20-$30 per day (the equivalent of about $3-$4 per hour).
C) A 6-year-old boy hand ties knots for carpets at a loom for 10-12 hours each day, year round. He sleeps at night on the floor in the workshop and is fed two small meals a day. but is not paid because he is a bonded laborer working to pay off debts his family cannot afford to repay.
D) A 13-year-old girl detassels corn for 8-9 hours a day, six days a week during July and is paid $5.75 per hour (with no overtime pay).
E) A 16-year-old boy works at a fast food restaurant after school for 5-6 hours a night, four days a week and is paid minimum wage. Usually he gets off work at 10, but sometimes works until midnight and then closes out the cash register and cleans the front of the restaurant for an additional hour.
F) A 9-year-old girl from a poor family in the countryside is sent to live with an unfamiliar family about 50 miles from her home, where she is responsible each day for cooking three meals, cleaning floors, carrying water, washing dishes, and washing clothes, and sometimes watching the family's 2-year-old son in the evenings. She is provided room and board, but no additional pay.
G) A 14-year-old girl helps serve customers and make sandwiches at her family's restaurant after school and on weekends for no pay.
H) A 15-year-old girl who hopes to be a doctor some day volunteers to work full-time at a hospital over the summer, for no pay.
I) A 12-year-old boy agrees to leave his home to live and work on a cocoa plantation after a trader promises him a bicycle and $150 a year to help support his family. Once he arrives, he works with no pay and is beaten if he does not continue to work.
J) A 13-year-old boy is hired to drive a tractor up and down dirt roads alongside fields on a large commercial vegetable farm to wet the dirt and keep dust from flying into farm workers' faces. He is not on the official payroll, but gets $100 cash each week for about forty hours of driving.
  *THIS ACTIVITY IS FROM The Child Labor Education Project:

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