Child Labour Is Doing The Right Thing Wrong By David Montero

Child Labor Essay “A child dispute could eliminate 4,000 Pakistani jobs,” quoted from Is Doing the Right Thing Wrong by David Montero. People should buy products that have been manufactured with the use of child labor. Boycotting a company that uses child labor could not put not only the child out of work, but it could put a child’s entire family out of a job. On a level that “hits closer to home,” if you stop the use of child labor than you will have to start paying for the minimum wage required to pay adults and that means the products are going to cost a greater sum of money. Although some people argue that it is not moral to buy products that have been manufactured using child labor, it is quite the opposite seeing that you could ruin the life of not only a child, but his or her entire family, because of the fact that this job could be the only income that the entire family gets. People should buy products that have been manufactured using child labor. …show more content…
One thing that most people do not realize when they boycott a company due to child labor is that the amount of child labor generally increases because of the boycott. “In certain cases product boycott can even cause child labor to increase rather than decline,” from This Company is Employing Children? by Nadira Faulmüller. For example, when the U.S. Congress threatened to ban the import of clothing made by children under the age of fourteen in Bangladesh, 50,000 of them went from their job in the relatively clean textile factory to collecting garbage. People should buy from companies that use child labor to manufacture product not for the company, but for the children who desperately need the money to support themselves and their