One of 40 children, a young boy named Amitosh, describes to reporters from The Guardian, how his life as a sweatshop worker began. He was bought from his family's isolated village near Bihar and was dragged to New Delhi by train. Amitosh recalls that a few men came to their door in early July, convincing his parents that, if they sent their son to work in the city, they won't have to work in the farms. Looking through the bus windows and observing, Amitosh noticed one of the men pulling out a large stack of bills and giving his father a small amount. “Thank you sir” where the last words Amitosh ever heard from his father, thanking the man for taking his son. Amitosh and 40 other children from Bihar began their new life. Recalling that the train
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Because child labor is an ongoing problem that has been occurring since the Industrial Revolution, many organisations have been researching to try and find the true cause of this issue. According to an impact study conducted by Leonardo Becchetti, a professor at the University of Rome, “the rise of child labour [is] one of the most politically sensitive issues in our globalised society”. In his report, Child labour and consumer responsibility, Becchetti acknowledges that many scholars consider the sweatshop owners as the biggest cause of sweatshop child labor. This is because they are the people directly exploiting, manipulating and abusing innocent and poor children into manufacturing cheap products to be sold for their own profit. On the other hand, Becchetti himself believes that the primary cause of sweatshop child labor is the consumer. In their annual report, The American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA) mentions that on average, every person living in a first world country purchased 64 clothing items in 2014. Because the companies that use sweatshop labor are some of the most famous and richest western brands and companies, most of the clothing items purchased around the world come from these companies (“Highest-Paid CEO’s”). The consumers are funding the western companies which are buying cheap
Because child labor is an ongoing problem that has been occurring since the Industrial Revolution, many organisations have been researching to try and find the true cause of this issue. According to an impact study conducted by Leonardo Becchetti, a professor at the University of Rome, “the rise of child labour [is] one of the most politically sensitive issues in our globalised society”. In his report, Child labour and consumer responsibility, Becchetti acknowledges that many scholars consider the sweatshop owners as the biggest cause of sweatshop child labor. This is because they are the people directly exploiting, manipulating and abusing innocent and poor children into manufacturing cheap products to be sold for their own profit. On the other hand, Becchetti himself believes that the primary cause of sweatshop child labor is the consumer. In their annual report, The American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA) mentions that on average, every person living in a first world country purchased 64 clothing items in 2014. Because the companies that use sweatshop labor are some of the most famous and richest western brands and companies, most of the clothing items purchased around the world come from these companies (“Highest-Paid CEO’s”). The consumers are funding the western companies which are buying cheap