Persuasive Essay On Child Labor

It is estimated that one in six of the world’s children are working in unacceptable conditions and that's about 180 million children worldwide (Kilcullen 218). That is a great deal of children that are exposed to harm or exploitation. The opposing side believes that these poor countries need child labor to survive, that it is alright to pay children low wages for the work they do, and do not believe that schooling is as important as work. By regulating child labor laws, governments would be able to enforce safer working conditions, increase wages to meet the cost of living, and mandate education for better opportunities even though the opposing side disputes these reasons and stance.

“If we can’t begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of child labor, then we are not ready to march forward into the future,” – Alexis Herman, Secretary of Labor. We cannot advance to the future if we still have child labor. It is wrong. Children have been servants throughout a lot of history, but in the 18th and 19th centuries, child labor skyrocketed. During the Great Depression, it went down. Everyone wanted the jobs to go to adults. Child labor hurts children, they get trafficked and they stay in poverty.

In 1900 18% of all americans worked under the age of 16(child labor)! Today there is over 168 million kids working indurated to help out there family(s). This effect people because the kids would have to skip school causing them to because dumb and not helping in any way, shape , or form for our community. That’s just messed up, working children for minimum wage or even less for up to 12 hours a day, that’s not right and erroneous. In 1916, the NCLC pressured the US Congress to pass the Keating–Owen Act, which was signed into law by president Woodrow Wilson. It was the first federal child labor law.

“Each year, as many as 2.7 million healthy years of life are lost due to child labor.” Imagine that you are being held as a slave and forced to do dangerous labor as a child. Countless people are being held captive and are being forced to do perilous things, sweating their lives away, not taking breaks, and being put in adult like situations. In fact right now there are “15-20 million children working as slaves.” Although it provides the youth and families with money, and possibly something to learn from, adolescents should not be enslaved or forced to do labor because it is very dangerous and can damage a minor for the rest of their life.

The majority of Americans would be horrified to support a business that exploits the use of child labor to produce its goods. However, odds are we all supported these businesses the last time we went shopping. It be it a baseball for our child, diamond ring for our fiancés, or chocolate bar for our hunger it probability was made using child labor in Indonesia, South Africa, or Ivory Cost. The use of child labor is a major driver

By definition, child labor is the illegal and/or inhumane use of children in an industry or business. Child labor should not be a controversial issue and people need to open their eyes and see the lives that are being taken from children all around the world. Americans have developed this “not my kid” type of view and blame is put on the parents of the children who are exploited in factories, sweatshops, and on the streets trafficking drugs or being sexually trafficked. The issue of child labor needs to become a priority to all Americans, parents and children alike. There are millions of children forced into child labor today and it is time we agree on fundamentals as a nation and globally. If we address this issue on a global standpoint and all parties step up to take action, millions of children will be freed of the inhumane, youth stealing and life threatening industry of child exploitation.

Looking at the statistics it is easy to determine child labor is not something that went away over time. Not only is the number of children in child labor at an all-time high, the children are also younger than ever. This alone is a valid reason for why working conditions for children should be made safer rather than getting rid of it as a whole. However if the number of working children were to have decreased over the past twenty-seven years, we can make the argument that child labor is not a necessity. Imagine how much damage would be done to the countries that support child labor and the families these children contribute to if their jobs were outlawed. Ethics and morals are different everywhere, just because Americans do not agree with how a business is run it should not mean that we get rid of it. Children have been working for too long for it

Child Labor seems like a thing of the past for those living in wealthy settings. However, in some 3rd-world countries, families live in poverty and depend on labor to live. Many large companies have been accused of hiring underage people to work in factories., and many people believe that the U.S. should stop buying goods from these companies. Instead, the U.S. should still buy from these companies because it would not stop the issue, it would have many economic effects for families, and

According to the International Labour Organization, over 168 million children are child labourers even till now. Children as young as five work ten to twelve hours in factories, but only earning a few dollars, or even cents a day. If they ever try to escape, they are mutilated, raped or even murdered as a punishment. Not only are they treated like slaves, but more than half of the children work in dangerous places, such as gunpowder

It’s tragic to think that in this day and age, child labor still exists. Poverty and lack of schools are considered to be the main cause of child labor. An estimated 168 million children aged 5 to 14 are forced to work, in developing countries,

Child labor is illegally being done worldwide currently to this day. Children to teens are being forced to work in dangerous conditions that could get them killed, like climbing trees, and working in the hot sun. Some work in industries that produce tobacco or cocoa. According to CNN, 10 countries that are the worst with child labor include Eritrea, Somalia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Myanmar, Sudan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Zimbabwe, and Yemen.

Families were poor, women had to work just like the men, if they didn’t work they don’t get paid, so after the women had the baby she would bring it to work with her. At the age of 5 or 6 children had jobs so they could have some income for the family.

The percent of children in the ages 5-14 year old working is 25.8 which is 4,692,293. The percent of children that are in school between the ages of 5-14 is 59.8. It is good to know that most of the kids are in school but it still affects the education of that 25.8 percent of the kid that are working. Children also work as domestic servants. Children may work long hours, and their isolation in home makes them susceptible to sexual abuse. Children living on the streets sell food and water, carry packages, unload buses, engage in prostitution and distribute drugs and alcohol. These activities expose them to various forms of exploitation, including physical abuse, intimidation and theft. There are reports that children also are forced to work in quarries, breaking stones into gravel. And there still fighting for their lives to be as normal as any other young child in this

“Child labor usually means work that is done by children under the age of 15 (14 in some developing countries) that restricts or damages a child's physical, emotional, social and/or spiritual growth.”1

Damn everything I read points to no benefit and benefit to the poor. Labor is a service and most poor people are in the labor industry. Labor value is determined neither by law nor by wish but by the market. All of us would love to be paid $1,000 an hour or paid enough to live a wonderful and luxurious life. Given that all of us would want this, why don’t we pass a law, this $1,000 an hour? The thing is no body will end up being paid. You need to look at what you are being paid upon the service you offer. If this law was to be passed many athletes, some music stars and star actor would still be employed. The rest of us that work hard every day in the service industry, construction industry, and food industry would be out of work. There is no employer out there willing to pay me that amount to park their car, make them a sandwich, or fix there dryer. America has a competitive labor market and if a law like this was passed, many of us would have to let go of our butcher, baker, or Tim that makes me a sandwich at subway. As much as I like them, and value their services, a $1000 is a $1000 in my pocket. I couldn’t spend that to even hire any of them for even an hour. How about we drop the minimum wage because Tim can make 20 sandwiches in an hour and each sandwich cost $6 and it cost $84 for prep work and rent. I need to make a profit and be able to pay him for the hours when we don’t sell 20 sandwiches. I decide to pay him $5 an hour to make a good profit. If I paid Tim $5 an