Ethical issues involved in child labour According to the Deontological or Kantian tradition it is ethically incorrect to employ child labour because such practices violate our duty to treat children with respect. Rights of children are violated when we treat them as way of reaching the ‘end’ which is production and economic growth. Children are the victims of this malpractice since they cannot think rationally for themselves and they have not freely chosen to be a sweatshop worker. Hence we as society, are using them as tools simply because we were born in more privileged families. Thus even if a child labourer is producing beneficial consequences for the economy as a whole it is ethically wrong because it violates a fundamental human
