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Im going to do the debate portion of my seminar a little bit differently and I'm going to get you guys to debate against me. I have prepared two different sides of the argument, and after the seminar we’ll get the class to collectively decide which side of the argument that you would like to defend, and i will argue against it. |
discuss how the debate is going to work |
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A sweeping generalization of child labor is that it is simply children working, however there are many factors to determining whether or not it is dangerous child labor.
characteristics of child labor are: work that is mentally, physically, or morally dangerous and hazardous to children, interferes with the education, wether it is depriving them of their opportunity to obtain an education, as well as obliging them to leave school prematurely. child labor could also interfere with the attendance in an attempt to combine heavy work loads with regularly attended school hours.
child labor refers to work of a child under the age of 14. The legal age to obtain a job worldwide is 16 years old, however, in some cases, it can be legal to work while a child is 15 |
-sweeping generalization -characteristics are -child labor refers to work that is
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These figures are the for the total amount of children who are involved in child labor in the individual countries. the figures are for ages 5-14. Also a picture that i don't have mentioned here is that 1 in every 9 children under the age of 14 work, so taking that into scale with our classroom, 3 to 4 of us have worked while we were children instead of getting an education. |
-ages 5-14 -1 in every 9 children; use classroom example
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the first obvious point is that children can contribute to their families income. this is excpecially important in a case that a family does not make enough income with only the two parents working jobs, and even if they have children of the legal working age contributing, the family may not have a large enough gross income to pay for all of the families needs. Even though the child may not make a lot of extra money for the family, something is better than nothing.
The second point here is that children who are poor can work towards tuition fees in the event that the parents refuse to pay for them. This is beneficial to the child because in developing countries, it is extremely difficult to come out of poverty unless you are in a high paying profession such as a doctor or a lawyer, and these jobs are impossible to achieve without a higher education. In this case, the child can prepare for the future and ensure that they will not live in poverty when they are older, and in turn bring their families out of poverty as well.
The next two go slightly hand in hand. Firstly, a parent can use their child in a family busniess which is useful because then the family is not obligated to pay another worker, which would decrease profit for the family as a whole.
This ties in with the fourth point that owners can reduce cost of production with using children instead of paying more qualified people. There is a general “minimum wage” in every country like canada, and im sure most of you babysat or sold lemonade as a side job when you were younger, and the minimum wage expectancy didn't have to be met. this is similar to in these developing countries. the owners don't have to pay the child as much, which will overall reduce production costs for the owner.
The last point here is that in some places in the world have a shortage of the amount of people who can work for certain reasons. (pakistan, afghanistan, women are not allowed to work outside) so these children could have the opportunity to work, increase their experience level, as well as help their poor families, all while helping with the labor shortage in the areas that need the help. |
1. contribute to income: family makes not enough income, the childs labor is better than nothing. 2. poor children can work towards tuition fees 3. in a family business 4.reduce labor shortage |
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In an adjacent room at the Manthoc centre in Lima, eight-year-old William plays with other boys of his age. On weekends, he sells lollipops on the street and gives his earnings to his mother, "so that she can buy food". As William speaks about the pride he feels being able to contribute to his family's income, Andy and Xiomara, both 11, nod their heads. "I wouldn't choose not to work if that was possible, because I prefer working over doing nothing," says Xiomara, who helps her mother selling corn at the market. "I'm not interested in making money," says Andy, who sews leather shoes in a factory. "What I want to do is to help people and feel like I'm useful." He dreams of becoming a civil engineer. |
This is a case study that i found showing a positive side to child labor. It is however a pretty good situation. |
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Many companies today actually use child labor more than sweatshop labor because sweatshop labor is more popular to activists, and both abuse the cheap labor that comes with it. an example of this is urban outfitters who actually made a campaign expressing that they would not use sweatshop labor after a scandal was released, and instead opted to switching their manufacturing to child labor which is ironic because child labor is basically sweatshop labor using kids so i don't know how that justifies itself. However, popular brands such as nike, apple, hershey, marlboro, victorias secret, xbox, walmart, h&m, puma, samsung, nestle, urban outfitters, and coca cola are popular companies who utilize child labor. Child labor is widely used in companies producing chocolate products because the children are often put to work gathering cocoa from trees because they can “climb better” and older people have the ideology that if they fall out of the trees, their bones will heal faster than a full grown persons. |
Explaining companies: 1. activists attack sweatshops first 2. urban outfitters 3.name brands 4. why child labor is used in companies |
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the cons to child labor begin with the danger of the working conditions. The children are often made to work in unsafe factories, garbage dumps with toxic chemicals and biohazards, and fields under the hot sun. They also neglect and abuse the children, often causing them mental, physical and moral harm.
One of the main characteristics of child labor being defined is that the labor deprives the child from getting an education. This could technically mean a lot of things. If a child needs to leave school early to work, it is considered child labor. If a child needs to drop out of school to work, it is also considered child labor. Another example of labor hindering with education is that these children are continuously working at a low paying job instead of obtaining the education that they need to become jobs that pay better. Because of this, the children are trapped in the factories, fields, or dumps, and do not have the education to rise out of them when they are older.
The last part that is a con to child labor is that they also come with crime, slavery, trafficking, and prostitution. The sex trade is very popular with children as well, as well as selling children into slavery for money for the family to eat. |
1. working conditions 2. deprives child of education 3. leads to other bad things |
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Moussa Suhail Obeid collects plastic and steel at Gaza's main landfill, near the Gaza-Israel border. He is paid half a shekel for every kilogram of scrap he gathers, making him 5 (80p; $1.3) to 8 shekels a day.
The children are paid $1-2 per day depending on how much rubbish they gather "I left school this year and I'm not going back. I was never a good student and I know I'm not going to be a doctor or a teacher, so I decided to quit because I'm convinced it's a waste of time. "But that's not the only reason - my dad is unemployed and I have nine brothers and sisters who badly need food and money for school. My brother works in a factory that makes plastic pipes for agriculture but he works only when they have raw material. "Honestly, I'm fed up with my life. I have been coming to the landfill for three years now. I used to come here very early in the morning before I went to school and come back after I'd finished class. "I search all day through rubbish bags for plastic, copper and aluminium. Anything I find, I sell to a man here who collects the scrap for the factories - I'm sure he rips us off. "I would work anywhere to provide my family with food. We are not refugees so we don't receive food aid from anyone. "I feel so bad when I see other children playing and going to school while I'm working here in the heart of garbage. This is our life - we can't have everything we want.” |
Case study explaining the bad side of child labor. |
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Before we start the group discussion because i have a feeling that it may be hard to conclude after we have all argued, i would like to collectively bring all points together and answer the question that guided my seminar by saying that yes, under certain circumstances, and under extreme care, child labor may be beneficial to developing countries, if the children are putting a proper education first, so that they can build a promising future for themselves. |
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