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Children in the Fields in an educational documentary produced in 2008 by the
Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs about migrant children working in fields in the United States. Through children, their parents and experts the short documentary explores some of the reasons for child labor
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about child labor in the United States, the least protected are children who work in agriculture. Labor laws for the agriculture industry, such as minimum age, length of a work day and management of hazardous conditions, are more lenient than those for any other
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plantations that use child slave labor. The children are usually 12 to 15 years old, and some are trafficked from nearby countries. In
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