“The main cause for children doing work is poverty,” says Nadira Faulmuller in “This Company is Employing Children”. People should buy products made with child labor. Buying these products will support the many families of the working children, since the reason children are working is poverty. Not buying the products can create more problems for the children working. Even though some say that working children are robbed of their education, individuals should buy products made with the use of child labor because hard labor has the ability to motivate children to get an education.
This can be anything from buying at your local farmers market knowing that it was grown around your area without any assist from children, or even to making your items. Researching about where your farm produce is coming from is interesting, for all you know the chili peppers from your local supermarket might have been passed down by five or six little hands before getting to you. Making your items is just yet another example, the only labor you are relying on is yourself. While this is something small that you can easily do and may seem as if it would not help, surprisingly it does. Last but not least, you can always donate to charities and other organizations that help combat child exploitation. Two of my favorite ones are Love146 and Childhelp. Both of which being nonprofit provide children in need with the help they deserve. It can be anywhere from food, clothing, education, and even shelter. And if that's still not enough, there is always the option of being a foster parent or adopting from orphanages which have kids who have been through these struggles. In my mind, what I can do to help combat this evil would be to shop for local produce and make monthly donations to charities. Organizing a small protest to help advocate child safety laws would be another, even if that means waiting in the capitols
Do you shop at Nike, Gap or Walmart? Did you know kids in certain countries are forced to work in factories that supply these companies? Even what we call the magical place on earth (Disney) Which has factories that have children working in them. Now that just makes me feel like I shouldn’t shop here anymore. According to the 2010 National child labor survey ,(1-7) 63.5 percent of all the young laborers work in cultivation. These youngsters have to work in horrible situations which causes major health issues. Over 400,000 Syrian refugee kids in Turkey work instead of going to school. How would you feel if you had to drop out of school to work for your family in long hours under the sun which can damage your health? But for these kids this
Child labor is an important issue, that many people are not aware of. Child labor is occurring in many countries, and we need to prevent it. I know some people may disagree with me, but child labor is a serious issue. Children who work at a young age are more likely to quit school early, they work in toxic hazardous conditions, and they receive harsh punishment from their employers. Americans should not support businesses that use child labor to make goods because if they do they would be encouraging the use of children to work day and night making products to please other countries. Children's developmental process is hurt if they start working at a young age. "Children who leave school and start working are less likely to stop working
In the United States, child labor and sweatshops are illegal, and society frowns upon any business that exploits children in the production of goods. Though most would say that they would not support a company that uses child labor to produce its goods, almost everyone has, in fact, knowingly or unknowingly, supported these businesses in one way or another. Children are involved in the production of many of the everyday goods we import from overseas, including the manufacturing of clothes, shoes, toys, and sporting equipment, the farming of cocoa, cotton, sugarcane, and bananas, and the mining of coal, diamonds, and gold (The U.S. Dept. of Labor). Often, we are blinded to this fact.
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
put child labor laws in place. Along with that, the fear of the fact that exploitation may be occurring is one huge reason people favor boycotting manufacturers that use child labor. It’s a valid worry though as, according to the history article by Naoki Tanaka “Much Too Young to Work So Hard”, “Children were exploited because as workers their labor was cheap and because their age made them easy to order around.” Yes, as said in the article “Nike Pledges to End Child Labor And Apply U.S. Rules Abroad” by John H. Cushman, Jr.,children over there aren’t exactly earning a good wage, but neither is anyone else. Everyone over there is in poverty, which is why the kids need to go work in the first place. They’re going over to work willingly because it keeps them and their families alive (Faullmüller 112). So while many may worry about these children being exploited, the children need the money and boycotting whomever they work for deprives them of the opportunity to get said
These children are also paid nothing or underpaid. According to www.ilo.org (International Labour Organization), "Only one in five working children is in paid employment." Many major companies use child labour such as Nike, Walmart, Puma, H and M, Forever 21 and many others. Why do these companies use child labour? Because the children, who make these products get paid very little or nothing. This is often called cheap labour. A product that costs $20 here might actually have been made for 50¢ somewhere in
People shouldn’t buy products that have been manufactured with the use of child labor because of the conditions they put the children in. For example, children working in the coal industry developed bad lungs because of all the pollution given off by the coal being produced as stated in the History Article, Much Too Young to Work So Hard By Nook Tanaka. It says “ The boys bend over conveyor belts until their backs ache, there faces are covered with soot and after they have chronic coughs from breathing in the air thick with coal dust.” On the same topic, young children working on the farm bend down picking up heavy things and are always in the bending down position picking plants, As stated in the same article
Child labor is used all across the world including Pakistan, Zimbabwe, and many more. The big question is if we should or should not purchase products manufactured with the use of child labor. In the Articles, the authors, David Montero and Nadira Fulmuller, it is proven that people should buy products that have been manufactured with the use of child labor.
There are many popular products for things such as sports, footwear, or clothing, but these some of these products are manufactured by underage workers. John Cushman’s article from the New York Times stated a quote from Philip Knight, chairman of Nike.''We believe that these are practices which the conscientious, good companies will follow in the 21st century. These moves do more than just set industry standards. They reflect who we are as a company.” Because products from companies such as Nike are made by underage workers working for minimum wage under poor working conditions that endanger their health, America should boycott these goods in response to child labor.
Companies use private contractors or sub-contractors to protect themselves from a legal standpoint but are well aware that children are working in the factories. In fact, child labour is what allows them to produce at such a low cost and maintain their margins high. Currently there is 200 million children working in factories that are either financially or physically obligated to do so. A full-time adult factory worker in China makes about $118 a month, there has been little to no data leaked about the salary of an average child worker since 1990 where it was 6 cents an hour. Yes, it may be costly to purchase locally made products but keep in mind that this will help the country’s
On our way, we came up to a small town where the streets were full of people buying and selling food, clothing, shoes, and business services like hairstyling. We stopped to explore together to see what the market place had to offer. When we noticed a large group of children instead of playing and being like regular kids, they were busy carry large tub containers on top of theirs head selling what they had to people. I went over to ask a couple of them why they weren’t in school and where were their parents. They all answered me saying that their families couldn’t afford to send them to school and that they sell in the street to help and support their mothers. This broke my heart cause no child should have to take on those responsible at a tender age, the youngest child was eight and the oldest was fifteen years old. In American children those ages are required by the government to be in some schooling, whether that is home-schooling or public/private school. There are child labour laws against children under the age of sixteen working and having a job. But because this is a cultural norm so no-one sees it has a