Sweatshops And Child Labor

Many sweatshops hires children’s to work when it is clearly illegal. Child labor is common because suppliers are able to hire those children at low wages, and can take advantages of those child small hands and bodies to do work that adults can’t necessarily do because of their size. Children should be at school learning and educating themselves, not working in a dangerous and unsafe place like a sweatshop. A palm oil company called Wilmar was recently blamed for exploiting children: “Amnesty alleged that children aged from 8 to 14 were carrying out dangerous work without safety equipment, were exposed to toxic pesticides and regularly carried sacks of palm fruit weighing 25kg. One 10-year-old boy, who claims he started working for a Wilmar …show more content…
2016). In Nepal, child labor is very common. It is estimated that: “Some one-third of the children in Nepal are part of the labor force. Among children aged 5 to 14 years, a total of 31.9 percent are found to be in the work force, about 65.3 percent are outside the work force, and an only 2.8 percent are not involved in any work” (Sapkota, G. 2016). Children are found to be working in different countries doing different jobs: “In Congo, children are found hunting diamonds in mines, in Burma they are working on the railroads, in Pakistan they stitch soccer balls, in Caracas they are shining shoes in the street, in Sudan they are sold by their parents for $100 and then put at work in the sex trade or at any other labor” (Galeano, E.), and much more. In the U.S, child labor is illegal nowadays but it used to be very common in the early twentieth century when the Industrial Revolution was occurring. There are now laws and regulations that are strict for children under the age of 18 and businesses and corporations are not allowed to hire before the age of 16 years old in the U.S. Some working place doesn’t even hire before the age of 18, and sometimes …show more content…
senator, a large number of those children ended up becoming prostitutes” (Ramzanali, A. 2011). Parents rather see their children work in sweatshops than being in the prostitution business, which is completely understandable. In developing countries, education is not that important, so working in the labor force is their only option. In countries where education is not required, it is often because of the inequities between nations and the economic differences between countries. Child labor is definitely found more in developing countries than in developed countries because of the fact that they are more advanced in terms of laws, regulations, and technology. There are many organizations around the world that are working towards providing assistance and promote the rights of children around the world such as the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC) and the United Nations Children’s Fund