CHILD LABOUR
Article: http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/lwp/NLC_childlabor.html
Young children from countries like Bangladesh who are only eleven or younger, work for the big brands we know like Wal-mart, JC Penny, Puma, and Nike. These kids are payed only a few cents an hour and in return are to make the clothes and shoes we purchase for high prices. Is it ok for children to work in these harsh conditions for pennies to support their families? Explain using specific evidence from the internet and include a quote to support your answer.
I think it is not right for children under the age of 14 to be working in factories or anywhere at all. The reason is that they are paid in minimum wages, for really harsh work. What really bothers me is that, why are the children working instead of the parents. It won't make much of a difference but it makes more sense. Children should have the opportunity to go to school like me, after all we are around the same age. It also makes me wonder, why is everyone only being paid cents? The thing is that the company owner will be able to afford what he or she needs, but the children need more. They may be working hard, but they should not be working. It is much to dangerous to be working in a factory as a child. There is no difference in safety for the children, however they are grown up, and will not cry if they get hurt as much as children. The concept of child labour is unacceptable, and I say there should be something to be done about this. Like letting the parents work instead.
ReplyDeleteGood opinion, but I think that you should have added examples of child labour around the world. You could have even added the example of Iqbal Masiah, who as a child fought against child labour. You were also supposed to add a quote in your explannation.
DeleteYou are right. I forgot to add it in earlier, so I'll add it in now.
DeleteI like how you explained your opinion in depth for each point.:)
DeleteDoes anyone remember the story of Iqbal Masih? Well, it's a story about a kid who was just like any other child in Pakistan. However at a certain age for example 10-12 Iqbal ran away. He soon found an organization who would be able to help him stop child labour. He went all around the world to give out speeches of his experience. When he returned, he was shot and killed, but no one knew by whom. But, I always keep in mind what Iqbal said. "Children should have pens in their hands, not tools!" So I'll never forget it.
Deletei like ur opinion but u need a lot of examples so that i can believe and support ur opinion
Deletegood opinions. I agree with you
DeleteI personally believe that child labour is wrong. Children under the age of 13 should not be working at all. Children should be going to school and not working for their families. The family should be working for the children and getting them an education. Kids shouldn't be exposed to threatening chemicals, dangerous machinery and around places that are not sanitary. "Children are not doing fine if they are in a factory line". This quote says a lot. It says that the children who are doing 16 hour shifts without a break are not fine and that they shouldn't be working in a factory line,
ReplyDeleteI like the way you provided opinions of your own for all your points, but you could've provided a specific example to support your answer.
DeleteYou did a good job by expressing what you feel like to support your points. But you need to add an example.
Deletei like how u included the quote and how u explained nut u need a example to make it even better
DeletePersonally, I think it's a terrible thing that children under 14 are forced to work under unforgiving conditions! A child is a child! "Child labor is a devastation, they should concentrate on education!" this quote is something i feel is very relevant to the topic. I know it's wrong because those children work 16 hour shifts instead being able to have the freedom and decision of doing something else. It's shocking to see that although the countries are different, people my age and younger are forced to work in unsanitary areas for low pay! It's scary to know that if my parents didn't come to Canada in 1994, i may have had the fate to work in such places. I can comprehend that children's families are forced to send their children to work in places for ungodly hours at a time. A child under 13 shouldn't be forced to hold machinery, they should be holding a pencil learning about something. "Children are meant to learn, not earn!"
ReplyDeleteI like the way you put in 2 quotes and explained them in great detail, and I also like the way you provided your own example to prove your points, but you could have provided a specific real example of child labour incidents to also prove your points. :)
DeleteYour quotes are inspiring but you should give more examples something we can relate to over all your answer was inspiring.
Deleteyou have great points and quotes
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Child Labour
ReplyDeleteI think that child labour is one of the most disgusting things in the world. In my opinion, I think that working 20 hours a day, getting less than 6 cents an hour, and working in unbearable conditions at worse. But what’s even worse is that CHILDREN are the one suffering this unbearable pain. It’s NOT OKAY to work in the harsh work conditions in garment factories for not just children, but adults as well. It’s as the children are being treated as slaves! The parents of the children are also forced to take that drastic step because their families cannot survive with just the parents’ wage, no matter how much they work. So, the children have to work too, ditching their future ahead of them. I’m sure no parent would want their children to be exposed to the dirty and dangerous quality of the factories, but when it comes to surviving, they have no choice but to. As we saw, in the video and article, the factories that the children work in often have no bathrooms or sanitation facilities, the work conditions are often not safe and the children are often abused as well, by getting beaten to being struck on the head. And, they sometimes don’t get adequate sleep since they work for 20 hours at times and; basically treated as slaves, basically.
The children should not be working in harsh conditions unless the companies that they work for promise to make the companies safer and pay the employees more, so their parents receive enough money for the family so the kids don’t have to work. The children shouldn’t be working there at all, let alone working there just for a few cents a day in return for making hundreds of clothes and shoes that they make each day for us. Big corporate stores and brands such as Wal-Mart and Nike, for example, overlook the issue of child labour. They don’t care if there are no bathrooms or if children are being beaten or anything. All the want is supply for the demand. For a more specific example, let’s take Nike, the shoe and sport Apparel Company. Recent news had been reported that there had been children making Nike’s soccer balls in Pakistan. I don’t know for sure if they had been practicing cruel work habits with the children, but they did refuse twice for one of their stitching centres to be inspected. That gives a clue about whether or not there is child labour involved, and if the child labour is being practiced in harsh work conditions. But, in the past, Nike factories had been seen to abuse their workers and not pay them enough wage, and make them work over time.
Good job in explaining your points and giving many examples to prove your opinion.
Deletei like how you used info from the video and the article to prove your point
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ReplyDeletePersonally I think there should be no one at all working in harsh condition just to get a few cents. A kid needs to live his/her life instead of working for horrible people. The quote "Children should have pens in their hands, not tools" has a big meaning to it. It is saying that child labor should be stopped and that kids should have a better education and I agree 100% to it. If those adults decide that they could torture kids for doing work then at least give them a better pay. As kids earn 5 cents per hour the factory owner earns a lot more. Since adults are stronger than kids why not use them to do work and make it a job instead of forcing kids to do awful work? This is insane and I think child labor should be stopped.
ReplyDeleteI think that you have good opinions on why you think children shouldn't be working in harsh conditions as child workers, but you could've provided a real example/specific evidence to support your points and answer. :)
DeleteWell Aaron you have a great opinion but I think that maybe you should have added some examples from the real world. Do you really think that this even good if adults did this because no human should be working in these conditions?
DeleteThe opinion you poses Aaron is valid, however you need more information and examples.
Deleteyou could use some more examples to prove your point, but the rest is good
DeleteThe Dalai Lama had once said, “It is unfair to seek one’s own interest at the cost of other people’s right.” Personally, I think that this is true. Children shouldn’t be working in for our demands in dangerous and harsh factories and sweatshops, and on top of that, work for a pay next to nothing!
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion I personally feel that it is not right for children 11 or under should be working in these factories for these companies. According to me there are 2 main reason that are highly overlooked, which result to child labour and sweatshops which should clearly be noticed quite easily. The first reason is that the working conditions that they are forced to work in are so unsanitary and are poor. They have no clean bathrooms and hardly any clean water which is terrible, just imagine how you would feel doing your business in a bathroom that is never clean and has insects everywhere. I know I wouldn't be able to do this even if they paid me a thousand dollars an hour. The second reason that these major companies like Nike and Walmart are forgetting is that these workers are just children.If these companies had made adults do this work it would bad but by making children who should be going to school and learn do this work, they are doing something disastrous. I think that if the children of the owners of those companies where forced to work in these conditions for even one day, they would stop all this. At this age children should be going to school and be receiving education which would help them create an excellent future and not in factories just to earn a few cents for their parents. Iqbal Masiah who once was in child labour but then escaped said that," Children should have pens in their hands, not tools," as he believed that all this was wrong. All we can hope for is that child labour and sweatshops are put to an end and that those children could now finally receive an education.
ReplyDelete11 or under? What about 14 and under because that still happens even though that they are not even old enough to work yet. Many grammar mistakes. What if the factory is cleaner than other factories? Just because it is child labor does not mean the factory is not clean. Why would you pass up 1000$ I mean just to work for an hour you get 1k. What if the children were not forced to go but chose to go to help the family? You should have explained more in high details and you should have revised your work.
DeleteYour answer has a lot of examples that we can relate to and has a positive opinion
DeleteI like how you integrated your own opinion with the quote and you provided a perspective-wise approach to explain all your points.
ReplyDeleteI think it is very terrible how children gets treated in harsh ways. I sometimes always think why children gets paid cents for working 20 hours, and the companies earn the investment money. The most worst thing is they don't let them to rest even if they're sick, for example; In Nepal children 14 and under are working hard even when they're sick and some other countries, (as shown in the video). The parents are not left alone they make them to make their children work and if they don't they work they have to take drastic steps that make the kids to work not only the children their parents have to work too, even if they get money that is less than a $1. In the video they were showing how in factories they aren't no bathrooms and sanitizing place. This has effected them by; when they go to the factory none of the places are safe so they can get beaten as a slave and also they don't get enough sleep, since they are working 20 hours they have the chance of sleeping only for about 4 hours which is cruel.
ReplyDeleteI think that children should stop working in harsh conditions unless they have made their price higher and a better place, this can helped their parents and their selves on receiving money for their needs. The children should stop working for cents in return for clothing instead they should go to school and learn like us every body have equal rights to learn and not work at a certain young age. Nike, Just do it, Is a quote from Nike that explains that in the factories the children has to do it in any cost. When Just do it should be represented in sports. Nike factories are the certain factories where child labor is happening and it should stop, Just don't do it.
Your opinion is really strong and I appreciated the way you incorporated the Nike quote into your response.
Deletei love this it has amazing information that connects very well to ur opinion and i think ur examples are very strong
DeleteYeah I agree the way you represented the nike quote so a very strong view to look at the quote in a different way.
DeleteNo, I don't think it is ok for children to work in these harsh areas because they are children and they should not be working in this age. These kids only get a few cents for hours of working. Take us for example here we are with iPads laptops and complaining about the things in life when those other kids don't even have enough food. Imagine us working for hours and hours just to earn a few pennies that won't even be enough to buy an apple. Remember when we won't on that long hike at Albion hills? What if we go on that same hike 20more times, we would be struggling to keep up. That's how those kids have to work. They don't deserve that because why should they have to suffer a harsh hard working life when we get to have a rich life? ( when I say rich life I mean that we have a life with all these electronics and good shelter and food and etc.) These kids don't deserve this. They should be in school like us but they are not , we are in school writing why this child labor is wrong when all the kids should be doing the same thing . If those kids were to write this they would write much more because they have experience. It's time for us to take action and stop child labor.
ReplyDeleteTo make your opinion even stronger you could have added a quote and more examples.
DeleteI did add a few quotes but they are hard to find because I put my opinion in with the quotes that's why it's hard to find them
Deletei like how you interact with the world to the text, i think that you should add a quote and based on that add example that could make your paragraph more stronger
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ReplyDeleteI don't think it's ok for children our age to work this hard so that we can wear a nice pair of shoes. I also don't like the way those children are treated. It's not fair that they get beaten for not doing work or doing something wrong, and at the same time we walk around in the shoes they make. It's not right for parents to allow their children to get beaten. I also don't like the idea of a child working to provide money for his or her family. They deserve a better life like us. They should also be able to go to school and get paid more. I don't think that they should work at all! I can't even imagine how hard these children work to give us food, clothes, toys and much more. In the mean time they have nothing while we have everything they ever wanted. We always go crazy when our parents don't buy stuff for us, but have thought that it was for your own good. Your parents don't want you to have a life without education. I don't think their parents want them to be like this either, but sometimes you don't have much of a choice. Like Dalai Lama said, "It's not fair to find ones own interest at the cost of other peoples rights."
ReplyDeleteWell Philip your opinion is quite strong but it would of been even more stronger if you had included examples from the real world.
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DeleteI think it is right for kids to work in harsh conditions because they have no other option. If they were to go to school, then their parents would not send to sweatshops the first place. Their parents can't afford anything and adults cannot go to sweatshops since they don't hire them. If parents(adults) go to sweatshops they can easily escape and they can harm the vicious people. If the family is dying out of hunger and shelter, then they have no other option but to send their kids to work to get money. Even if they get $10 a week that's still enough to live. And the country where this happens cannot do anything since they don't have money to stop it. The wrong thing is children work in this for their whole childhood. ''stop child labour, start educaton''
ReplyDeletethat was the wrong quote sry
Deletethe quote is ''only the worst thief would steal someone's childhood''
DeleteI understand that they have no other option and they need money but there are other work they could do such as working in shops and cleaning peoples homes but this type of work is just wrong.
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Deleteno one will take children to clean homes and they dont have any education to get a job
Deleteby the way I like how you represented child labour with adults and how ca it happen.
DeleteNo, it is not okay for children to work in these harsh conditions for pennies to support their families. Children who are forced to work for these companies are really young; they should have fun in life and not get abused! If the families really need some money why do they have to send the youngest child to work in slavery why can they not get a proper job for themselves, because getting a proper job is a lot better and they would get more than 5₵ per hour. “Workers are forced to complete the same repetitive task all day” this shows that all kids do is work and they don’t even get a break.
ReplyDeleteThe shoes that kids make in child labour cost us $250 when the kids themselves only get 83₵. Kids work so hard to make the shoes so perfect when they barely get enough money to buy water. Do you think this is fair? Of course not! Child labour needs to be stopped because the kids cannot escape so they are going to be stuck working for the big brands when getting 5₵ for 60 minutes (1 hour).
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No, it is not okay for children to work in these harsh conditions for pennies to support their families. Children who are forced to work for these companies are really young; they should have fun in life and not get abused! If the families really need some money why do they have to send the youngest child to work in slavery why can they not get a proper job for themselves, because getting a proper job is a lot better and they would get more than 5₵ per hour. “Workers are forced to complete the same repetitive task all day” this means that all the kids do is work and they don’t even get a break.The shoes that kids make in child labour cost us $250 when the kids themselves only get 83₵. Kids work so hard to make the shoes so perfect when they barely get enough money to buy water. Do you think this is fair? Of course not! Child labour needs to be stopped because the kids cannot escape so they are going to be stuck working for the big brands when getting 5₵ for 60 minutes (1 hour).
ReplyDeleteChild labour isnt right for kids because they do not deserve it but still do they get to talk for them selves, NO! why does child labour even have to exist when everyone knows its wrong?
"Children should have pens in their hands not tools."- Iqbal Masih- 1983-1995. I think that it is wrong that children are forced to work in hazardous sweatshops because it is not our job as kids to be working in a sweatshop so that family's could be supported that's the parents job not the kids!!! Child labor has been a problem since the late 1700's and early 1800's!!! Around 1810 about 2 million school- age children were working 50- to-70- hour weeks. Many companies support child labor such as Joe Fresh! The other day a factory in Bangladesh that items from Joe Fresh was made in collapsed, killing more than 238 workers. Child labor has been going on for to long it's time to stop it!!!
ReplyDelete"Children should have pens in their hands not tools."- Iqbal Masih- 1983-1995. I think that it is wrong that children are forced to work in hazardous sweatshops because it is not our job as kids to be working in a sweatshop so that family's could be supported that's the parents job not the kids!!! Child labor has been a problem since the late 1700's and early 1800's!!! Around 1810 about 2 million school- age children were working 50- to-70- hour weeks. Many companies support child labor such as Joe Fresh! The other day a factory in Bangladesh that items from Joe Fresh was made in collapsed, killing more than 238 workers. Child labor has been going on for to long it's time to stop it!!!
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