Child Labour And Globalization

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Globalization plays a major role in the child labour industry. Child labour has been around for thousands of years and is only now being recognised by many groups as an issue. The reason it was not recognized earlier depends mainly on the lack of education over this matter in more developed countries. Child labour happens today to provide cheap labour to companies who are usually outsourcing from a more developed country. The companies do this because they are looking for a cheaper product than what is readily available were they are located. The opportunity to outsource away from your companies home country exists due to globalization. Child labour also happens due to extreme poverty, another source of income for there family or lack of adults …show more content…
The Three highest are Nigeria Burundi And Yemen. Nigeria has fifteen million children below the age of fourteen involved in child labour. Girls are often participating at a younger age than Males doing jobs like domestic work in households and other tasks which do not take as much strength as others. Burundi is known for only thirty two percent of the population to be above the poverty line and large amounts of child labour in Agriculture, Domestic household and Industrial Plantations. There are also internal conflicts in Burundi that are leading to child soldiers and imprisonment at a very young age. Most children over the age of fifteen can read, but even though schooling is free until the age of twelve only seventy one percent receive a decent education that can be used later on in life. In Yemen approximately eight hundred thirty five thousand children between five and fourteen take part in child labour. Girls are mainly involved in human trafficking and sexual exploitation. Though seventy percent of child labour is in the Agriculture areas children also take part in the automobile industry and child soldiers.
Child labour is most dangerous in the mining industry. Mining includes dangerous scenarios like working with heavy equipment, chemicals and explosives while in dangerous environments
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The Agriculture Industry has more child labourers involved than any other industry in the world. Seventy one percent of child labour is in the Agricultural Industry and it is considered to be very hazardous because it includes dangerous chemicals and large machinery that should require special training before handling or operating. Roughly sixty eight percent of child labour in agriculture is an unpaid family member. Many children in agriculture dont realize they are a part of child labour as they have been working on the farm for most of their lives with no pay and do not remember any other way of life. In some countries there are no labour inspectors and in other countries there are very little inspectors in rural areas making it one of the easiest child labour acts go conduct without being fined or charged. Traditions that involve child labour in agriculture sometimes make it very hard to address these acts and many children go their entire lives without knowing they were being worked illegally. Farming includes crops like sugarcane, bananas, rice or tobacco. The tobacco industry is very dangerous because workers take in nicotine through their skin. Working on a tobacco farm for one day is the same as smoking over fifty packs of

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