Child Labour is Better than Living in Poverty: Reflective Essay

This reflective essay explores the topic of child labour being better than living in poverty. It discusses the circumstances in which child labour can be beneficial for children, the challenges of tracing and monitoring child labour within global supply chains, the responsible parties for child labour, the legal, social, economic, and organizational challenges of enforcing a ban on child labour, and potential solutions for resolving the issue. The essay provides insights into the complex issue of child labour and offers suggestions for addressing it.

Academic performance
Part A Reflective essay
Child labour is better
than living in poverty
Discuss

Table of Contents
Circumstances which can work to beneficial for children.....................................................3
How might increasing trade openness (i.e., the ability to transport goods across national
borders) making harder for tracing and monitoring the use of child labour within global
supply chains?........................................................................................................................3
Who is responsible for child labour within supply chains?....................................................3
What are some legal, social, economic and organizational challenges for enforcing partial ban
or complete ban on child labour?...........................................................................................3
Finding potential solutions for resolving issue of child labour within supply chains. Provide
solution and its reason...........................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

Circumstances which can work to beneficial for children
When any work can provide better learning of skills along with independence which can
show benefit to children through child labour. This can help to provide better learning of
different skills through working. Such type of circumstance can lead to provide benefits for child
labour.
This can lead to provide social benefits by learning different skills for better delivery of
services. When economic condition of child is not good and not able to survive then child labour
can help then in survival for better and effective living. There is very less chance of better mental
health but they may get strong metal status for living. When children economic status is not good
then there is chance of not having better physical health which is due to not having nutritional
diet (Samper, (2021)).
How might increasing trade openness (i.e., the ability to transport goods across national borders)
making harder for tracing and monitoring the use of child labour within global supply
chains?
Increasing trade openness makes hard to trace and monitor use of child labour which is
harder to identify the child labour due to poverty and many chances which helps due to create
difficulty to access and monitoring child labour which are in complex global supply chains. On
international border there are many children who are willingly working for some credit which
can lead to difficulty in tracing child labour which is due to willingness of involvement of child
in child labour. Due to trade openness which is due to creating earning opportunity for better
earning (Teh, (2019)).
Who is responsible for child labour within supply chains?
Some or all the above
What are some legal, social, economic and organizational challenges for enforcing partial ban or
complete ban on child labour?
There are different challenges which are enforcing a partial or complete ban on child labouring.
There is poverty issues is one of the major challenge which influence children to work and this
for their survival and for expectancy of their standard living. This leads to create the fulfillment
of labour on local places and work done on less charges which is beneficial for the children for
getting chance of earning and for business who need cheap costing labour. It is highly

challengeable for organization to get each and every operation with proper legal. There are many
laborious work for which they need cheap cost labour and children are able to fulfill this
acquirement which provide organization for better benefits.
Finding potential solutions for resolving issue of child labour within supply chains. Provide
solution and its reason.
It is suggested that there is need to make some rules and regulations which can help to provide
better solution regarding child labour. Government need to make some rules that can lead to
provide better opportunity for children to get education and chance for getting better and
effective life. There is also need to make some analysis and find out the reason by government
which is for child labour. Then there is need to implement strategy accordingly for finishing
child labour (De, (2019)).

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
De, (2019). Social exclusion and inclusive growth in labour market of India-For sustainable
development. International Journal of Research in Social Sciences, 8(2), 572-589.
Teh, (2019). and the Labour Question in Republican China, 1919–1938. The Internationalisation
of the Labour Question: Ideological Antagonism, Workers’ Movements and the ILO
since 1919, 279.
Samper, (2021). Marriage migration and women's entry into the German labour market. Journal
of Family Research.