While serving as a wide-scale issue during the Industrial revolution of the 1800s, child labour is still a threat throughout the far reaches of our planet, and for some, it might hit closer to home than one might think.
The minimum working age varies depending on the country and the line of work in question. But as we know, when there’s a chance of profit involved, nations such as Pakistan and Malaysia, take advantage of the many loopholes within these laws and the legal system generally. Even in today’s society, we find them capitalizing on the fruits of child labour. In this day and age, particularly in the poorer regions of central and southern Asia. Children caught in the line of child labour often have no homes or family, and are regularly …show more content…
They can be negative for the children and positives for the businesses and vice versa. For example, for some instances include the boys and girls of the middle east are primarily forced into the business of crafting rugs, which is considered lucrative, as competing countries often have stricter child labour laws, resulting in a higher profit for those who do employ children. A reason that workers can benefit from child labour, is that it is also cheaper than hiring regular workers, and for all the effort, work and long hours put in a day, the children are often lucky to receive even one-third of what an average adult worker would be paid. Similarly, children are frequently traded and exchanged in a highly similar manner as slaves. The male children are beaten regularly to push them into long and brutal work hours, and the female children are often violated and raped by their masters. In Pakistan in particular, add-on laws have been in play for a significant amount of time, but the government is often not hesitant to turn their heads the other way as these slave-drivers rake in a massive profit from the harsh treatment of children. These are severe consequences which may add to why this matter could be wrong over
The minimum working age varies depending on the country and the line of work in question. But as we know, when there’s a chance of profit involved, nations such as Pakistan and Malaysia, take advantage of the many loopholes within these laws and the legal system generally. Even in today’s society, we find them capitalizing on the fruits of child labour. In this day and age, particularly in the poorer regions of central and southern Asia. Children caught in the line of child labour often have no homes or family, and are regularly …show more content…
They can be negative for the children and positives for the businesses and vice versa. For example, for some instances include the boys and girls of the middle east are primarily forced into the business of crafting rugs, which is considered lucrative, as competing countries often have stricter child labour laws, resulting in a higher profit for those who do employ children. A reason that workers can benefit from child labour, is that it is also cheaper than hiring regular workers, and for all the effort, work and long hours put in a day, the children are often lucky to receive even one-third of what an average adult worker would be paid. Similarly, children are frequently traded and exchanged in a highly similar manner as slaves. The male children are beaten regularly to push them into long and brutal work hours, and the female children are often violated and raped by their masters. In Pakistan in particular, add-on laws have been in play for a significant amount of time, but the government is often not hesitant to turn their heads the other way as these slave-drivers rake in a massive profit from the harsh treatment of children. These are severe consequences which may add to why this matter could be wrong over