Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking (OCFT) Publications

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Trade & Development Act Annual Reports

• The Department of Labor's 2007 Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor — 2008 (PDF)
• The Department of Labor's 2006 Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor — 2007 (PDF)
• The Department of Labor's 2005 Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor — 2006 (PDF)
• The Department of Labor's 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor — 2005
• The Department of Labor's 2003 Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor — 2004
• The Department of Labor's 2002 Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor — 2003
• The Department of Labor's 2001 Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor — 2002

Advancing the Campaign Against Child Labor Series

• Advancing the Campaign Against Child Labor: The Resource Allocations of National Governments and International Financial Institutions — 2004
• Advancing the Campaign Against Child Labor: Addressing the Worst Forms of Child Labor — 2002
• Advancing the Campaign Against Child Labor: Efforts at the Country Level — 2002
• Advancing the Global Campaign Against Child Labor: Progress Made and Future ActionsA report of the May 17, 2000 conference at the U.S. Department of Labor — 2001

By the Sweat & Toil of Children Series

• By the Sweat & Toil of Children: Volume VI An Economic Consideration of Child Labor — 2000
• By the Sweat & Toil of Children: Volume V Efforts to Eliminate Child Labor — 1998
• By the Sweat & Toil of Children: Volume IV Consumer Labels and Child Labor — 1997
• The Apparel Industry and Codes of Conduct: A Solution to the International Child Labor Problem? — 1996
• By the Sweat & Toil of Children: Volume II The Use of Child Labor in U.S. Agricultural Imports & Forced and Bonded Child Labor — 1995
• By the Sweat & Toil of Children: Volume I The Use of Child Labor in U.S. Manufactured and Mined Imports — 1994

Other Child Labor Publications

• Advancing the Global Campaign Against Child Labor: Progress Made and Future Actions — 2007
• Linking Theory and Practice to Eliminate the Worst Forms of Child Labor — 2006
• Faces of Change: Highlights of U.S. Department of Labor Efforts to Combat International Child Labor — 2003
• Summary of Findings from the Child Labor Surveys in the Cocoa Sector of West Africa — 2002
• Focus on Children Newsletter — 2002
• Report on Labor Practices in Burma (Includes a chapter on child labor) — 1998
• Forced Labor: the Prostitution of Children: Symposium Proceedings — 1996
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For copies of Public Hearings on Child Labor (1994-1999), please contact OCFT.