Arguments for and against Child Labour in Supply Chain

Academic Performance
(Part B)

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Arguments for the use of Child Labour in Supply chain.................................................................3
Arguments against the use of Child Labour....................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Child labour is a serious issue in World; it is a situation when children are being exploited to
do any form of work in respect of earning money. The Children put their life in dangerous and it
is harmful for their mental and physical development. Usually Children perform duties when
they are trapped in a cycle of unemployment and poverty (An and Chambon, 2017). Child labour
is caused due to many reasons such as poverty, unemployment, existing laws are often violated
or free education is limited. The report is based on the child labour in which arguments against
and for the use of child labour is discussed.
Arguments for the use of Child Labour in Supply chain
Need to address the issue of poverty before attempting to ban Child labour is one of the
point which must be considered by the government before banning the child labour. It is
important for the government to know about the issue of poverty as it helps in knowing the
reason behind making their children to work. Poverty is a situation when people have no income
to fulfil their basic needs. To accomplish the basic requirement children use to work so that they
can met their basic needs like food, shelter and clothing (Bourdillon and Carothers, 2019).
Mostly Children do work for earning money so that they can become source of income for their
family and fulfil their needs. Child labour is caused when family is not able to fulfil basic needs
and they require money to live their due to which Children start doing job in order to earn money
and support their family.
The businesses that employ child labour can also improve their lives by changing working
conditions and offering high pay and benefits such as access to education and development
opportunities. The Organisation on large scale having a high turnover on each year can support
children by offering them scholarship and paying their fees in School. If each business men who
run their company at large level provides free education to some children can help them to avail
the benefits of education by performing their job. Even Organisation can raise the salary of Child
labour so that they can fulfil their basic needs and support their family. It will be a great gesture
of businesses if they reduce the working hour of their Child labour and keep them away from
hazardous, harmful substances, chemicals and dangerous machines and equipments in order to
save their life (Frölich and Landmann, 2018).