Chocolate Child Labor

Child Labor in the Canning Industry of Maryland, a letter written by Lewis Hine on July 9, 1909, describes the working conditions children experienced in the factories of Baltimore, Maryland. In the early 1900’s a working fathers income would only support 60% of the families needs; because of this “the children had to work in order to give the family a living wage.” The children were forced into poor working conditions, working around “unguarded belts, wheels, cogs that are a menace to careless children.” The cannery many children worked in “required no permits,” allowing employers to have full control over the children's work. The use of children provide a cheap source of labor. Children were cheated out of what they earned because “the company

Child labor was very common and popular especially in the late 1800s and early the 1900s even though many people were not aware of the dangers. We can define child labor as work that deprives children of their childhood, their potential and their dignity, and cause to their physical and mental development. Children are the base of a country but in a developing country child labor is an issue that has yet to disappear. Most of the children remain illiterate because of their poor economic condition and parents do not have enough money to spend on the education of their children, rather they send their children for work so that they could earn some money during their poor economic condition. The objective of my research paper is to raise awareness

One of the most popular food in the world. Chocolate! This delicious food is made from cocoa beans which are grown in pods on tree trunks.The production of cocoa beans have expanded over the years, from South America to the Europeans to the U.S. They originally were grown only in South America until Columbus brought them back from his last voyage. Since then cocoa has only grown in popularity. (Background Essay) The production of chocolate is poor for the Ivory Coast. First, the Ivory Coast isn’t earning enough money from the total income from exporting the cocoa beans for chocolate bars. Second, the agriculture on the Ivory Coast is terrible. Lastly, the cocoa production is affecting the existence of animals on the Ivory Coast.

Fair trade is a market reactive system that wants to abolish global inhumane acts from child labor, poor working environments, low wages, and healthy working conditions. Fair Trade does not control the prices at a local level the producers

Child labor in America was a major issue. Back in the 1900’s, children, as young as three years old, worked in factories, mills, on the streets, and even in the coal mines. Earning less than twenty cents an hour, these children were contributing to one-third of their family’s total income. The work conditions, put children in direct contact with danger, had deprived them of a proper education and revoked the child from having a normal childhood. In this summative response I will be discussing Lewis Hines- a photographer who ventured all over the states- and the immaculate photos he took of children working in harsh conditions and how one’s social class can affect one’s life-chances. I will also mention how child labor has improved over the

When the United States passed the bill that banned the importation of goods made by child labor, Americans thought that it was a victory for children in third world countries. What Americans neglected to consider was the possible negative side effects that the children were to face. Due to the ban, millions of children have lost their jobs and have been left to starve. Prohibiting theses imported materials is not an effective way to make the lives of working children better. When confronting the controversial issue of child labor, one needs to step into the shoes of the children, diminish child labor stereotypes, and focus on regulations and goals to improve working conditions.

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

Ever since I was a little girl I loved every dessert that had chocolate in it. However, when I was thirteen I learned about the unethical practices that chocolate-producing companies use in order to harvest cacao, of the children in third-world countries who are kidnapped and forced into slavery to produce chocolate, how they work long hours and are often beaten as punishment for not meeting a certain quota without pay or seeing their families. This alarmed me because at the time I had just learned about the treatment of child laborers prior to the passage of child labor laws in my history class. Many of my classmates and I had our eyes opened to such egregious acts for the first time and were appalled.

Consumers are happy to buy and indulge in these products not knowing that children are been use to prepare their products. therefore, am advocating the consumers and against child labor.

In “Is There Child Slavery in Your Chocolate?” John Robbins describes how Hershey’s abuse labor forces and how other major companies deter that from happening in their chocolate. Robbins explains that the Hershey “company purchases the primary ingredient in its products from sources notorious for abusive labor practices…”(1) Robbins emphasizes that Ivory Coast provides forty-three percent of the world’s supply of cocoa beans. He explains that in “…West Africa, particularly Ivory Coast, where Hershey sources its cocoa, and that forced or involuntary child labor was common in these areas”(1) Robbins states that there have been thousands of children who were either purchased or stolen to be enslaved to work on cocoa farms. He further explains

The article “Chocolate gets sweeter: How consumer outrage is reducing child labor in Ghana” discusses how the chocolate enjoyed by many people around the world are made by child laborers. These child laborers can work with their families, but the practice of selling children into child labor is common in this area as well. Jack Dawkins, an activist against child labor, had recently visited Ghana, one of the places in the world which has the largest amount of cocoa farms (cocoa is the main ingredient used to make chocolate). When he had visited Ghana, he witnessed many child laborers who did not attend school because they were busy working on the cocoa farms. These child laborers looked exhausted, tired, and wounded from all of the work they

An estimated 59 million children ages 5-17 are engaged in child labor. Nearly 29 million of these child laborers are engaged in hazardous work. Although, Sub-Saharan Africa made notable efforts to improve legal and policy frameworks related to child labor, children in the region continue to engage in dangerous forms of agriculture and domestic service. More needs to be done to prevent and eliminate child labor in Sub-Saharan Africa, we need to reduce the barriers to education, improve child labor legislation and enforcement, and implement social protection policies and programs. According to one of the most recent reports law enforcement bodies failed to collect statistics on child labor due to a lack in resources and trained personnel, thus impeding efforts to identify and sanction child labor violations. Moreover, countries had insufficient number of labor inspectors and insufficient number of criminal investigators responsible for enforcing the worst forms of child labor. More than 35 percent of the countries do not have national policies established to address child labor, and national social protection

As a consumer you do bear some responsibility for the elimination of child labor becuase if you continue to buy from companies that use child labor the problem will not go away. Continuing to buy from companies that use child labor fuels it, then those companies turn around and use your money to buy cocoa beans from the suppliers that use child slaves. Knowing now that chocoalte that does not have the Fair Trade symbol most likely have been produced from child slave labor makes me want to be very careful when I am buying chocolate. The next time I go to buy chocolate I will be looking at the label to make sure it has the Fair Trade

Knowing the situation, every human being is morally responsible for their position. Ethic of care is an ethic that emphasizes caringfor the concrete well being of those near to us. I think, chocolate manufacture companiesshould have a close relationship with their workers who are “child slaves” and must end childslavery and provide better working conditions for other labors.I do not think that virtue theory have any relevance to the case. Because using child as a labor,government officials accept bribery so from my point of view, there is no moral virtues in thecase.In my opinion, there is no justice, rights and caring in the case. Unfortunately, obviously, themain issue is Utilitarianism. It a very critical point that in developed countries, every human being has a lot of rights, and in undeveloped countries people tradeoff their rights for theeconomical stability of the country. It is not fair. Of course, nations’ benefits should be takeninto consideration but we should not ignore that we are “human” in the same country which

There are approximately 5,000 to 6,000 forced labourers in the Brazil Nut industry. They are forced to work in dismal conditions, families having to build their own shelters without proper materials or tools. Women and children work, but receive little or no pay. This