“Child labor”
By
Elie Bou Chaaya
ENL 110 Section “D” Miss Zeina Fayyad
18, January, 2008
Outline:
Thesis statement: Child labor nowadays is considered to be a social injustice due to its harmful effects on the personal and psychological life of the child where the kinds of work offered to the child increases the amount of these effects regarding the solutions. I. Harmful personal and physical effects of child labor A. Low pay B. Very long work hours C. Forbids children right in education D. Physical harm 1. Increased risk of accidents 2. Working in unregulated environments where little attention is paid 3. Violence exerted by adults on children 4. Risk of illness from
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In addition to that, one of the most important side effects is that working children may experience physical harm in a number of ways. These include an increased risk of accidents; children and young people often work in unregulated environments where little attention is paid to safety. Working children often experience violence in the workplace from adult staff and managers. Children and young people working in the street are also at risk of physical violence from police officers and other authority figures. Risk of illness from poor hygiene and exposure to bad weather can also be witnessed. Therefore, child labor involves the following characteristics: it violates a nation’s minimum age laws, involves intolerable abuse, such as child slavery, child trafficking, debt bondage, forced labor, or illicit activities, prevents children from going to school, and uses children to undermine labor standards (December, 2007). Child labor can also be developmentally, emotionally, and physically abusive. Child workers are more vulnerable than adult workers, leaving them at risk for exploitation, dangerous and abusive conditions. In many parts of the world, it too often involves confinement, bondage, and forced labor; it frequently involves dangerous and unhealthy working conditions. Children work longer hours have lower pays than adults. Some children are sold into labor
What is the consequences and impact of child labor? First, children who work will lost their childhood, children should play with friend
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
Children are being robbed of their childhood by corporations, that do not care about them. These corporations turn a blind eye towards the dissatisfying life, that is led by these children. They do not care about the children's education or the manner in which they grow up, and they expose them to harsh physical labor and unsatisfactory pay. These children are robbed of the years in which they should lead a normal child's life, and they don't get to truly enjoy being a child. These children are exposed to unhealthy situations to both the body and the mind,situations that a child should not be involved in. They are often unable to pursue proper academic studies, because of their jobs, and this could be because they aren't allowed to study, or simply that the lifestyle they lead doesn't allow them to study. On the other hand, children working at a younger age helps them shape an appreciation for hard work, and they learn to value money and time. Working at an early age also helps shape the economy of the third world countries that these children work
In 2008, there were approximately 215 million child labourers, aged 5-17, in the world. According to the International Labour Organization, the number of child labourers globally fell by 3% from the years of 2004-2008 which is slower in comparison to the 2000-2004 period that had an 11% decrease (Diallo, Etienne, & Mehran, 2013).There has also been a 15% decrease in the number of girls in child labour in contrast to boys who are having their work increase (United Nations, 2013). Among them, 115 million children were in hazardous work which includes: prostitution, agriculture, mining, militia, construction, manufacturing, service industries, hotels, bars, and domestic service (Cigno, Rosati, & Guarcello, 2002). The terms “hazard” and “risk” are often used with this type of child
It is a harsh reality that child labor was a prevalent factor in the early 1800’s, it’s origin was through a mix of greed and capitalistic tendencies. A prominent labor reform leader near the turn of the 20th century, Oscar Neebe, wrote in his autobiography "I worked in a factory where they made oil cans and tea-caddies. … I saw children from 8 to 12 years old work like slaves” he also states that “most every day it happened that a finger or hand was cut off, but what did it matter” The obvious abuse experienced by these workers needs no explanation, the inability of the workers to organize or have any ability to
“Child Labor.” Eiu.edu. Accessed December 6,2015. http://www.eiu.edu/~eiutps/ newsletter_childlabor.php.
How does Child Labor affects children’s health and education? Child Labor steals the childhood from the children. I am interested in child labor research because I personally experience it. When I lived in Nepal, I worked in a nut factory, and I was only in the fifth grades due to the financial problem. Many kids worked in hotels, in the house, and polished shoes to survive and to support their family and some of my friend carried loads in building construction. I am curious to know how poverty increases the population of the child labor and how it affects children’s dreams? I suspect the children’s side effect of doing adult’s work. I want to know does working as underage causes the lack of education and poor health issue? I had many question about child labor, and I did research about how does Child Labor affects children’s health and education? I read three text and I summarize each which is going to be each paragraph, and I will analyse the data.
Have you ever wished that you didn’t have to go to school? Well millions of kids right now would like to take your spot. Those kids are in child labor. Child labor is when kids have jobs only adults have, and these jobs are in some ways life altering. Most of these jobs are too dangerous for kids to do. Most of these jobs don’t allow you to mess up, because one mistake could cost these kids an arm.
You are a single parent in an underdeveloped country. You work 18-hours a day, yet you still live below the poverty line, barely making a few dollars per week. Not only do you have to feed yourself, you have to feed your entire family. The worst part is, your 5, 8, and 11-year-old children are forced to work as well, at a local factory that employs your entire village. Today, 215 million children work throughout the world, many of them full-time. These children do not get to go to school, have no time to play, and receive poor nutrition and care. Ahmad Suleiman, a nine-year-old Syrian child, is one of these poor souls. Forced child labor is not only a cruel practice, but extremely immoral, and has been around for hundreds of years. Aside from
Child labor laws were made in regards to child labor because minors were treated harshly during child labor. Child labor laws in America have changed throughout the years. Now if child labor laws are disregarded a parent or employer will be fined. Many parents disregarded child labor laws to support their families. Child labor laws were a turning point in history because children were working in dangerous environments, and new standards were made to prevent child labor.
The History of Child Labor In AmericaTopic: The History Of Child LaborQuestion: In what ways was child labor cruel to children?Thesis: Child labor in America has been very cruel and unfair to children as their jobs were not paid a decent amount of money, were working under terrible conditions, and they led to diseases. Starting in about the 1700s, hand labor was replaced by power driven machines to make jobs easier.1 The industrial revolution had begun, and families needed a job and money to be able to survive2. European immigrants started spreading word that children should work.Eventually factories decided to get kids to work since the machines were easy to operate3 and didn’t require adult strength. The jobs in the factories were easy,
Child labor is considered as deplorable in the current production that I fit in. The potential exposure to catching diseases, sharp equipments, and blood-borne microorganisms creates the working settings to hazardous for kids. This, again, is mostly because kids lawfully
Child labor has been around for long time and it still exists in today's world. Thiskind of labor provides problems or difficulties in the economic world. Child labor is social problem with the rise of industrial production and capitalism. It appeared in earlier ages in agricultural societies when the children all around the world had to work along with 19th century, spreading to many countries. The problems started when many children, younger than ten years old, were employed by factories. In this paper I will address the issues and history of child labor, the child labor laws, and my suggestions or solutions to child labor problems.
Child labour is when a person has power over many children and they use it towards their benefit such as businesses, especially when illegal or considered exploitative. The Worldwide Labor Organization evaluates that 215 million children’s that are between the ages of 5 and 17 currently work under conditions that are regarded as illegal, unsafe, or to an exploitative.
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