Globalization And Child Labor Analysis

I would describe Globalization as the spread of culture, knowledge, technology, and products internationally. The debates for and against globalization are very interesting in that there are infinite amounts of pros and cons. We can find an effect that Globalization has on almost any and every aspect of our lives because the world is constantly globalizing, so when it comes to things like child labor the links are extensive. From education to trade and the economy you come across things that you didn’t even expect and it leads to want to know more. You would think that with this new wave of information the number of children involved in child labor would decrease significantly. Technology is advancing so much more rapidly, so why does child

Aside from extralegal activity a portion of Burma’s economy stems from jobs provided by large international companies. Although they do allow for more jobs and essentially more money for citizens they also serve as a hindrance for individual economic growth because of the new found competition for local companies and also the implications towards child labor. I was extremely surprised at the number of American corporations that have been or are currently one way or another involved in forced and child labor. I recently came across a story about a 28 year old woman who stumbled upon a letter in her Saks Fifth Ave. shopping bag. This letter was from a Chinese prisoner who wrote numerous letters and stuffed them in these bags in hopes that someone on the outside would someday find and read one, little did he know that the letter would end up in West Harlem, In this letter he explains to this stranger how he is being treated, he compares his life to slavery, he spends over 13 hours making thousands of bags every day and experiences abuse regularly. The point that I am trying to make is that Saks Fifth Av is a large corporation, items in this store range from fifty to over a thousand dollars, they have a revenue of billions of dollars yet their profit comes from forced laborers. Companies like Hayne’s, Walmart and JC Penny, stores that most Americans know of and have

While adults in Burma and not to mention other “third world” countries make a lot of the products traded from Europe to Japan they do not get to enjoy any of the luxuries, so while they facilitate globalization they are not necessarily a part of the globalization process. Sadly, as the market continues to grow, and new innovations and idea’s flow from place to place, the little boy working in the tea shop or the little girl sewing from dusk to dawn in a factory will continue to do so not because there is not enough food in the world to feed them and their families or because there is not enough money to send them and their siblings to school but because the market, this system of labor and the demand for it has to continue. Parents still have to find a means to provide for themselves and their families and it is sad to say that sometimes this in tales children taking on adult roles and responsibilities. I started off originally trying to understand why a country such as Myanmar that in the scheme of things has the potential to be economically stable, is so impoverished and if and how this and the