Review 7th Article
“Child Labour”
According to UNICEF, child labour is defines as work that exceeds a minimum number of hours depending on the age of the child and type of work. Child labour is most commonly found in less economically developed countries due to the some factors. There are poverty, education, globalization, parent illiteracy and social apathy, exploitation of cheap and unorganized labour.
To school students around the globe, child labour is thought of being something of the past, an evil that has been vanquished. What few know, however, is that one out of seven children aged seven to fourteen are child workers. Children are often used in the workforce because they are nimble and agile, and work for extremely low wages, however
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English school of international relations theory is one of international relations theory that can relate the interactions between states and multinational corporations. There are three interactions, such as pluralism, solidarism, and zero-sum relations. In this case, solidarism is the interactions that uphold the certain common shared values which become the case that explaining in this paper.
Child labour is related to the human rights that given to the people and they can use it whenever they want. One of example case from solidarism interaction is corporate social responsibility. Corporate social responsibility is the social responsible that multinational corporations should do when they want to build the companies in home or host countries. But company ever made mistakes with the responsible that they should take care. They ever just let the responsible go and being irresponsible with the things that should be their
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It should be erased. Child becomes the ‘tool’ for industry or multinational company to produce the product. Child labour that happened in some companies showing the irresponsible company with people that should not go to work, like children. Children should get education, go to school, and not go to work.
The main reason why children become workers is poverty. Poverty is still happening in some developing countries. Child labour and poverty are connected, child have to go to work to fulfil the daily needs financial. That is one of the reasons why child go to work. Another reason is the lack of education that people got in their region make them should go to work rather than continuing the school.
Theory that used in this analysis is English school theory, which it is related with the case of child labour that wants to be dismissed by corporate social responsibility of multinationals company. The theory has solidarism interaction which can connect with the case of child labour. I am so happy to get opportunity to know more and analyze the case of child labour deeper. Because it is one of my favourite aspects to be
Shah, Anup. "Child Labor." - Global Issues. Anup Shah, 17 July 2005. Web. 26 Nov. 2013. .
All of my life I have considered myself as a person who loves children. I enjoy playing with them, helping them, and just being around them. So when I first agreed with corporations who use child labor I shocked myself completely. After examining two articles; one “The Case for Sweatshops”, by David R. Henderson, and two “Sweatshops or a Shot at a Better Life”, by Cathy Young, I came to the conclusion that in some cases when young children work under proper conditions it can keep them out of the streets and be helpful to them and their families.
Throughout time children have worked myriad hours in hazardous workplaces in order to make a few cents to a few dollars. This is known as child labor, where children are risking their lives daily for money. Today child labor continues to exist all over the world and even in the United States where children pick fruits and vegetables in difficult conditions. According to the article, “What is Child Labor”; it states that roughly 215 million children around the world are working between the ages of 5 and 17 in harmful workplaces. Child labor continues to exist because many families live in poverty and with more working hands there is an increase in income. Other families take their children to work in the fields because they have no access to childcare and extra money is beneficial to buy basic needs. Although there are laws and regulations that protect children from child labor, stronger enforcement is required because child labor not only exploits children but also has detrimental effects on a child’s health, education, and the people of the nation.
In conclusion I stand against the kind of child labour such as in Bangladesh which. Selling of kids to Big factories is immoral. On the other hand I do support the example set in Egypt and the family work units. They do more good than bad to the economy and save the government a lot of welfare money.
In terms of laws prohibiting child labor, 180 countries have ratified the Worst Forms of Child Labor Convention, which prohibits all forms of child labor, including child trafficking, slavery, hazardous work, etc., yet child labor continues to happen in these countries. Other countries like India and Eritrea also need to be pressured and convinced to ratify this convention(ILO). This is not the only law prohibiting child labor, however. Globally, child labor before the age of 14 has basically been banned, but most countries do not enforce this rule or have exceptions to this
The child laborer can work in different fields. Some are engaged in agricultural labor, manufacturing, mining, domestic service, types of construction and also begging on the streets. Some are engaged in more dangerous conditions such as armed conflicts, commercial sexual exploitation, drug trafficking and also organized begging. These forms deprive children from freedom and human rights. Moreover, they certainly engender harmful effects. Children may receive no payment; they just take advantage of being fed and having a place where to sleep. They don’t have any protection in case they get sick or injured.
“Many children are employed in horrible conditions in many countries around the world” (Sebastian, 1997). Child labour is a problem that was seen not only in England specifically, but exists in most third-world countries during the early stages of the eighteenth century. Child labour is an important issue because it affects the lives of millions of children around the world who are suffering from severe mental and health problems due to the poor working conditions with which they are forced to work, as well as the mistreatment they receive from those they work for. Child labour dates back to the eighteenth century where children were forced to work in harmful conditions for extremely low wages, from as early as the ages of six or seven. However, it is still a major problem seen in many countries around the world, even today....
Child Labor is not an isolated problem. The phenomenon of child labor is an effect of economic discrimination. In different parts of the world, at different stages of histories, laboring of child has been a part of economic life. More than 200 million children worldwide, some are as young as 4 and 5 years old, are slaves to the production line. These unfortunate children manufacture shoes, matches, clothing, rugs and countless other products that are flooding the American market and driving hard-working Americans out of jobs. These children worked long hours, were frequently beaten, and were paid a pittance. In 1979, a study shows more than 50 million children below the age of 16 were considered child labor (United Nation labors agency data). In 1998, according to the Campaign for Labor rights that is a NGO and United Nation Labor Agency, 250 million children around the world are working in farms, factories, and household. Some human rights experts indicate that there are as many as 400 million children under the age of 15 are performing forced labor either part or full-time under unsafe work environment. Based upon the needs of the situation, there are specific areas of the world where the practice of child labor is taking place. According to the journal written by Basu, Ashagrie gat...
The occurrence of child labor According to Sturrock and Hodes (2016), one in seven children worldwide is exposed to child labor, which is an estimated 215 million children (p. 1273). Child labor is considered to be more common in low-income than in high-income areas. Usually, families that are poor consider supplementing their income by forcing their children into the workforce. In many of these situations, the adults became ill and lacked the necessary safety net to protect them against illness, poor harvest and job loss (Napel & Napel, 2012, p.109).
So I believe that the issue of child labour is not simple. As Unicef’s 1997 State of the World’s Children Report argued, children’s work needs to be seen as having two extremes. On one hand, there is the destructive or exploitative work and, on the other hand, there is beneficial work - promoting or enhancing children’s development without interfering with their schooling, recreation and rest. ‘And between these two poles are vast areas of work that need not negatively affect a child’s development.’ My firm belief is that there is a difference between child labour and child work and that in both cases the issue is whether or not the child is deliberately being exploited.
Campaign against child labour and education for child labour are also our major programmes. 2. Facts about Child Labour : We always compare children with flowers and butterflies because of their common virtues like innocence, ever present freshness and tension free lifestyle. We do not differentiate between children and butterflies as far as their playfulness is concerned. We also consider our children as future pillars of our Nation.
...ork. Therefore it is important to distinguish between light duties that do no harm to the child and child labour, which is work that interferes with compulsory schooling and damages health and personal development, based on hours and conditions of work, child’s age, activities performed and hazards involved.
Since the definition varies drastically in different parts of the world it is hard to decide what is child labour and what is labour. For example the minimum work age in Egypt is 12, this would therefore constitute the 12 year old as an adult in the workforce and therefore would not be put in the child labour category.16 However the basic minimum age recommended by the International Labour Organization is 15.17 The Convention on the Rights of the Child defines child as any person under the age of 18 therefore constituting the full time employment of 12 year olds as child labour.18 While the definition of child may be disputed, I still firmly believe that the full time work of persons under the age of 18, which puts them in harms way and distracts from education, and life outside of work constitutes as a human rights violation.
Child labor has been going on for decades and it has been problematic worldwide. It keeps children from attending schools and working at places where they face illegal, dangerous, and unhealthy work conditions. The International Labor Organization is a United Nation organization that deals with labor issues. They analyzed about 215 million children from ages 5 and 17 who work in unhealthy environments and dangerous regions around the world. Moreover, children are forced to work because their families are poor and need the extra income to have a normal life.
Child Labor “Child labor is any work done by children that is dangerous, keeps them from getting an education, and is harmful to their health and development,” (Safeshare). Children in child labor are constantly risking their lives. Many children who work, work in fields that are not healthfully safe. However, in order to live our everyday lives these jobs are necessary because some of our everyday materials are extracted by children. Child labor is dangerous because children are being poisoned: infected with nicotine and pesticides, and they are being mistreated to the point where they die.