Child Labor
EQ: Is child labor ever necessary?
Background
- Child labor has been a commaon tread all throughout history
- Nearly 28 million chidren around the world are forced to work
- Children as young as 6 work hours as long as 16 hours a day
- Most of these children are treated very poorley and do very dangerous jobs
- Some laws were put into place, like Britain's Factiory Act of 1802, but most countires, especially India, dont listen to these laws
The Dangers of Child Labor
- Exposure to pestitside
- The children have to carry heavey loads
- Lots of injuries
- No wages
- Minimal food and shleter
- At risk of asult and abuse
- Exposes children to harmful chemicals and there are mostly bad working conditions
rug weaving:
- The exposure to dust in the air can lead to lung damage
- all of the stiches and sewing that is put into the soccer ball causes joint problems in the kids fingers
This is a photograph of children rug weaving.
Benefits
Why the kids need and have to work
- Some children have to work because with only their parents salery it's not enough
- Children working brings in more money for the family
The benefit of us
- The prduction of goods made by children actually benefits us because half the products we use are made by children
- Without child labor we wouldn't have the things that we do
Said by a women on a migrant worker camp in California
My answer to the EQ:
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