If a U.S. clothing brand buys from overseas suppliers who manufacture clothing using child labor, this is the supplier's problem, and the U.S. company has no reason to be concerned.…
In my opinion, the best way to reduce child labor for multinational corporations is to help the host nations in stressing the value of education to its citizens and improving educational opportunities such as better schools for its children. At the same time, the companies should strengthen its screening process to ensure that they are not hiring children. Just as it states in our text “Since poverty is synonymous with child labor, if a company pays higher wages, it can have a beneficial effect in raising local living standards and hence reducing the need for children to be employed” (Fieser, Moseley, 2012, p8.3). The same jobs that are using child labor could be given to able adults. From my ethical perspective, there needs to be balance in employing children. School should be the first priority for children yet they should also be allowed to partake in some form of regulated part time work in order to give them some experience and prepare them for the working world. Many teenagers graduate from high school and are unprepared for the transition from full time school to fulltime work. The ethical perspective of the group with which I belong to (African American), education is a priority however, young adults need a part time job in order to prepare them for their adult life and instill responsibility in them. As noted in the text “Covert child labor involves either participating in a family-run, income-generating activity, such as farming or retailing, or replacing the child’s parents in performing household chores such as cooking, cleaning, fetching water, and gathering fuel” (Cigno, 2012, p 65). Not all forms of child labor are detrimental.…
In business there is a lot of debate on what is ethical and unethical. The United States has passed many laws in order to enforce business ethics in corporations. However, there are still many outside countries that do not have a strict set of laws, and practice unethical business techniques. One major unethical practice that is done in many countries is the use of child labor in sweatshops. In sweatshops workers are subject to extreme exploitation. They are paid at a very low wage rate, do not receive benefits, have extremely poor working conditions, and may even suffer from some physical abuse. These types of workers could almost be compared to slaves, in the sense that they have no opportunity to improve their lives.…
In third-world countries minors are being put to work and they are losing their childhood. Child labor is happening overseas in places like Pakistan, Asia, and Bangladesh. Children at fourteen years old are being put in factories and working all day non-stop, and being bought by Americans who don’t even know where it came from. So I say it is finally time for this to stop. This is why products manufactured in third-world countries should not be sold or bought in stores.…
Children in other countries are living and working in sweat shops that are in the worst of conditions. Not only are they there to make a small amount of money, but some are there to pay off debts that their parents could not afford. Divakaruni says they “spend their day in dark ill-vented rooms doing work that damages their eyes and lungs”(398). The adolescents working in these factories clearly are not of any consideration, and have absolutely no rights. They are being exploited and used selfishly to help profit the company. Not only do they work in horrid conditions but they are not even allowed to take a bathroom break or stand up to stretch with out a pay cut. This is not right, and something needs to be done to help the kids live a life without filth and fear.…
All of my life I have considered myself as a person who loves children. I enjoy playing with them, helping them, and just being around them. So when I first agreed with corporations who use child labor I shocked myself completely. After examining two articles; one "The Case for Sweatshops", by David R. Henderson, and two "Sweatshops or a Shot at a Better Life", by Cathy Young, I came to the conclusion that in some cases when young children work under proper conditions it can keep them out of the streets and be helpful to them and their families.…
Sweatshops play a major role in third world countries. More than 150 million people work in these sweatshops in developing countries. Most of these sweatshop workers are children between the ages of 5 and 14. Many sweatshops are focused on the manufacturing of clothing. Several of these clothing facilities are located most commonly in Central America, South America, Asia, and parts of Europe. Large companies such as Nike and GAP have been discovered to use sweatshops. Although sweatshop employers can be abusive and working conditions are dangerous, sweatshops provide a source of income for the poor and could lead to more opportunities for their future.…
Over the past couple of decades as the textiles and garment industry boomed due to globalization it became one of the largest sources of industrial employment in the world. Sweatshops experienced widespread growth and thus increasing the harm caused to those employed in them, notably being women and children. Children are employed in factories and are forced to endure the same harsh working environment as all other adults. In 1971, it was estimated that in Hong Kong more than twenty-five thousand children worked full time in garment factories. The harsh realities of sweatshops do not only affect children, but also the women, approximately 90% of sweatshop workers in the garment industry are women.…
The long-debated argument among government officials and product manufacturers has been whether or not the United States should purchase items made by children. The debate has played an immense role in the eternal uncertainty of cents versus sense. The United States should allow for the purchase of items made via child labor. Through allowing distributors to employ children to assemble their products, the United States is essentially removing many families from a life of poverty. To ensure the working conditions of child laborers are not too inhumane, organizations have developed monitoring programs to oversee the conditions under which the children work. Although some may find themselves in a moral gray-area when endorsing child labor, they…
This issue stems from factories in Bangladesh because there are reports of the organization having under age workers. In Bangladesh children working at a young age in common. In their soil this is not an issue because without the children and parents working there is not enough money to support the family. The issue in this situation is in Levi Strauss and Company terms and engagement is say that the organization is not allowed to higher or work kids under the age of 16 because in the US it is illegal. Child labor laws is an issue that always get the media, workers right unions, stock holders and investment firms upset. (Levi Strauss and Co.,…
It is true that child labor is a terrible thing, especially for those children who are sold to employers by their parents at the age of 5 or 6 and have no way to protect themselves from abuse. In many cases it will be decades -- perhaps a lifetime, due to the fines heaped upon them whenever they make mistakes -- before they can buy back their freedom. Meanwhile these children, mostly employed by rug-makers, spend their days in dark, ill-ventilated rooms doing work that damages their eyes and lungs. They aren't even allowed to stand up and stretch. Each time they go to the bathroom, they suffer a pay cut.…
Despite the continuous efforts to eradicate child labor, it remains one of the most disturbing phenomenon around the globe. Under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), child labor can be identified as state and government laws forbidding the employment of children under the age of eighteen, except at certain specified jobs. One would think America as a nation would be more cautious and not participate in a social issue that exploits young children to produce merchandise. However, without thinking of it, we have all been a part of the problem by buying products from companies whose businesses are ran by under age kids. U.S. companies like Wal-Mart, Victoria’s Secret, Apple, and Gap have all taken part in using young children for revenue. With…
So, what exactly is child labor? Full-time work of children under the age of fourteen in situations that are damaging to health, education, or moral development for pay or no pay. Who’s bothered about this? Certainly not me! Am I taking action? Heck no! I don’t know about you, but child labor just might be the best thing that has ever happened to the world. If you don’t believe me just ask a factory owner, I’m sure they will agree and have a big smile on their face when they tell you why they use it! There are so many great benefits of being a child laborer, running a business with child laborers, and being on the receiving end of things made by child laborers.…
For parents and corporate leaders worldwide, the issues concerning child labor are some of the most controversial topics affecting today’s society. Child labor is work that uses children to perform physical, industrial tasks. Commonly viewed as an immoral injustice and a denial of basic human rights, child labor is conversely described as a necessary evil by some. Through propaganda and prejudice, the general public tends to neglect the notion that some nations face intensely destitute conditions where they require extra labor forces to maintain decent standards of living. Despite their actions, these countries, such as China, are still in their post-industrial eras and surely understand the unfavorability of exploiting children to factory…
Child labor was one of the negative effects of the Industrial Revolution in the United States, factories used the cheaper labor force and ease of manipulation to mistreat the children for a greater profit margin. In 1810 over two million children worked up to eighteen hours a day in dangerous and harmful jobs, often without break or adequate nourishment. It can be seen that many parents can not safely regulate their own children's’ labor outside of family farms. The United States government has the right and duty to step up and protect the health and development of children by placing restrictions on child labor.…