Analysis Of The Article 'Working In The Fields'

When their work do not affect their “health and personal development or interfere with their schooling,” they do not fit the negative notion of child labor (ILO, 1996). Children sometimes assist their parents with housework and take a part in building family businesses without their working hours affecting primary education. This is indeed a beneficial experience for children, because they learn to be productive within their communities. On the other hand, ILO (1996) applies the term child labor when work “is mentally, physically, socially or morally dangerous and harmful to children; and interferes with their schooling by; depriving them of the opportunity to attend school; obliging them to leave school prematurely; or requiring them to attempt to combine school attendance with excessively long and heavy work.” When child labor is engaged in enslavement, separation from families, and misplacement of children on the streets, ILO experts refer to it as the most extreme forms of child

To elaborate, the farmworkers have been laboring day and night, even when their bodies are in pain. As stated by a young girl, named Carmen, “‘She (mom) doesn’t want to see me work there (in the fields), … she says because it’s a lot of work, … She doesn’t want me to go through what she goes through (in the fields). She says it’s really painful, hard work. Every night I massage her back so that she can feel better in the morning.’” As migrant worker, children who work and go to school, never have the chance to have a full education or experiences with friends. We know this because NBC’s Child Labor: Young Hands Picking Our Food states, “Critics of current U.S. labor law say these childhood dreams are jeopardized by a relentless cycle where young workers drop out of school to follow their families and the crops for work and then remain stuck in the fields because the children never finish their high school education.” Also, the Braceros during WWII worked hard, however, their paychecks seem to always show signs of deduction. We know this from the article, The Realities of Life and Labor, in which a man stated, “‘Sometimes the check stubs indicate the deduction and sometimes they

Some 800,000 under-aged children work with their families harvesting crops across America. Babies born to migrant workers suffer 25 percent higher infant mortality than the rest of the population.

This shows that these kids didn’t have time to be kids, they only had time to think about thing they didn’t need to think about, and they had to worry about things that they didn’t need to worry about. .“What were your hours of labour in that mill?” “From 5 in the morning till 9 at night, when they were thronged” (Document #7). This means that the children were not only working illegally, but they were also working illegal hours, (for age under 18) I would have to say it is worse for the mothers, though, they would have to work all day and then come home and expect to clean the house, and then they would have to cook for

If we look at current statistics to raise a child today, in one year for one child it would amount to $12,000 a year if you take into account Food, Clothing, Healthcare, and Education. The average migrant farm worker has three children. Three children… That amounts to $36,000; this is four times the amount of money Lopez makes in one year. To see the hardships of migrant farmwork, all we have to do is visit a local site and you can see, the small shacks, hunched backs, miles and miles of fields, and the variety of ages in the fields. This is the life of these people, these are the hardships. Not to mention the abuse these farm workers take, especially the

According to the Cesar Chavez Foundation, “Some 800,000 under-aged children work with their families harvesting crops across America and as much as 30 percent of Northern California's garlic harvesters are under-aged children” (Chavez Foundation 1). All those children are being of an education because they are too busy working all day to go to school. Also because they are working all day farm workers have no time to teach their kids how to read and write so the kids never really develop the skills necessary to be able to communicate with other people. In addition the Cesar Chavez Foundation affirms that, “Babies born to migrant workers suffer 25 percent higher infant mortality than the rest of the population. Malnutrition among migrant worker children is 10 times higher than the national rate. Farm workers' average life expectancy is still 49 years --compared to 73 years for the average American” (Chavez Foundation 1). Most of those infant deaths are because the migrant workers don’t have the time or access to the medical attention required to raise infants. Farm workers' average life expectancy is probably so short due to the strenuous work they do on a daily

The article discusses child labor in tobacco fields. Children ages 7 to 17 suffer from chronic illnesses as a result of poisoning from nicotine and pesticides. Furthermore, the teens that work in the summer suffer from nausea, vomiting, headaches, skin rashes and irritated eyes. As shown in a study, most children are working in the fields to provide for their family who can barely put food on the table. In attempt to fix this poverty, some people to respond to this epidemic. Hilda Solis spoke out against this and said, “We simply cannot-and this administration will not-stand by while youngsters working on farms are robbed of their childhood.” The agribusiness lobby objected, and mobilized all its forces from the American Farm Bureau and Monsanto to the beef, pork, and poultry producers to stop the rules from taking effect. They campaigned claiming that family farms would be ruined. Again, this situation emphasizes how society shrouds reality in attempt to compensate for their failure. Also, as stated in the article, Michelle Obama is an advocate for endangered children in Nigeria. She is focusing on other countries’ welfare, but fails to realize that America has plenty of people in poverty. The media covers the aspects of other countries that are in poverty. However, media does not cover America because America is generally wealthy, and society covers up the people in need with society’s general wealth. The American

Hundreds of thousands of children under the age of 18 are working in agriculture in the United States. According to The Daily Transcript, “Many young people ages 13 to 16 work 70 to 80 hours a week and risk pesticide poisoning, heat illness, injuries and lifelong disabilities.” With this going on, children are being exposed to harm that they may or may not even be aware of. Child labor is more common in the United States (and all over the world) than one might think. There are laws currently in place dealing with child labor, “…which prohibit 12 and 13-year-olds from working most jobs, except on farms, and also say that youths aged 14 and 15 may not work in hazardous jobs, including construction.” (The Daily Transcript). Although these laws are in place, in 2010, 467 child-labor violations were found and

According to The Associated Press, “many young people ages 13 to 16 work 70 to 80 hours a week and risk pesticide poisoning, heat illness, injuries and lifelong disabilities.” If these children worked everyday of the week, they would be doing over 10 hours per day. Consequently, this extreme labor can leave lifelong physical and mental scars. There are many safety precautions that are ignored when it comes to agricultural child labor. Louis Whitman, executive director of Human Rights Watch’s Children’s Rights Division, states that “‘U.S. laws should be changed to protect the health, safety and education of all children’” because “The report said these abuses are possible because the laws governing child labor in agriculture are much less stringent than those for other types of work”(The Associated Press). Because agricultural child labor is not regulated, more children are able to be put in this dangerous field of

Pete Rose once said You’d be surprised how many shortcomings can be overcome by hustle. This means that your doubt, laziness which are shortcoming’s can all be overcome by hard work and hustle. In the book the Big Field the lesson is working hard to get what you want. In this quote Hutch said “I will never give you that spot Darryl” this quote is one of the most important quotes in this book.

1. 13-year-old Maxime wouldn't have needed consent to work the cornfield, since, as with most jurisdictions in Canada, child labour in the farming industry is almost entirely unregulated. At what age should a child legally be allowed to work in Canada? Deaths or injuries resulting from safety violations also raised questions of maturity: at what age can a child fully comprehend their rights as workers? It's not that Canada is free from child labour, but in fact the debate is so murky that the issue remains invisible. Federal legislation prevents those under 16 from working during hours they're required to be in school, and never between 11 p.m. and 6am. Children under 16 can't work in open pit mines or explosives factories. In 2003, British Columbia passed Bill 37, which loosened many restrictions for workers aged 12 to 14, removing permit requirements and random workplace inspections, which made enforcement of young worker regulations

In the working industries, children working in unskilled jobs were paid less than their adult counterparts, earning around 5 cents an hour. These children were, in a businesses perspective, useful because their small hands made allowed them to handle small parts and tools. As little as they were paid, children still are willing to work because it was most often the difference between whether or not a family could afford to eat. Most of these immigrant children will be dragged into work by their parents because many of them will be forced to take their children to their work. Without anything to do these children end up working just like their parents. Some kids who are not tall enough will sit on their parents laps to do their share of the

During class, we watched the film “Harvest.” This film is about migrant workers from Mexico, that work in the fields, and pick our vegetables, fruits, and cotton. These workers do not work in the best conditions. They have to deal with long hours with minimal pay (not even minimal wage), bugs, the heat, and pesticides. A lot of these families put their children to work young to help support the family.

Every day, millions of youth hie to work to moil from cockcrow to dusk, incumbently attempting to succor their progenitors augment the wherewithal to survive. Child labor, which according to the article “Almanac—World & News—TIME For Kids Magazine World Report Edition”, “exists in two-thirds of the world's nations”(Almanac 1) is detrimental to bairns around the terrene. One example is declared in the article, “Child workers are getting sick while harvesting tobacco on U.S. farms” by the Associated Press, a 17-year-old adolescent named Erick Garcia explains the conditions he has to endure on the tobacco farm where he endeavors. He states, “The conditions are inhumane”(Associated Press 2). Erick, who has worked on the locus since he was 11,

During the pre-Industrial Revolution, many children worked on the farms alongside their family members. A child working in the fields was not a problem at the time because it was normal