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. COUNT 3
QSN1 What is Kaminfegerkinder? ANS1 chimney sweep children QSN2 What types of child labour did Switzerland employ? ANS2 spinning mills, factories and in agriculture QSN3 Where did the children go to work primarily in Switzerland? ANS3 poor farmers who needed cheap labour