In this fourth part of our interview, Kari Tapiola and the editorial team of geneveMonde.ch discuss the abolition of child labour and the question of education. In Europe, the growing emphasis on compulsory education in the second half of the 19th century helped to relegate child labour to the margins of economic activity.

The ILO defended compulsory education as a way to get children out of work since the beginning of the 20th century. Kari Tapiola explains why the developing countries with less developed education systems were not able to follow ILO policy.

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Photo by Lewis Wickes Hine in 1908. John Howell, an Indianapolis newsboy, makes $.75 some days, he begins at 6 a.m., this photo shows the young newsboy standing at a busy street corner. The shadow of the photographer and his camera are in the foreground. Document courtesy of the Library of Congress.