Child labour
As in many other countries, child labour in Switzerland affected among the so-called Kaminfegerkinder ("chimney sweep children") and chidren working p.e. in spinning mills, factories and in agriculture in 19th-century Switzerland, but also to the 1960s so-called Verdingkinder (literally: "contract children" or "indentured child laborers") were children who were taken from their parents, often due to poverty or moral reasons - usually mothers being unmarried, very poor citizens, of Gypsy-Yeniche origin, so-called Kinder der Landstrasse, etc. - and sent to live with new families, often poor farmers who needed cheap labour.
What types of child labour did Switzerland employ?
spinning mills, factories and in agriculture
in spinning mills, factories and in agriculture in 19th-century Switzerland, but also to the 1960s so-called Verdingkinder (literally: "contract children" or "indentured child laborers") were children who were taken from their parents, often due to poverty or moral reasons - usually mothers being unmarried, very poor citizens, of Gypsy-Yeniche origin, so-called Kinder der Landstrasse, etc.
Child labour