Child Labor

Running Head: CHILD LABOR
CHILD LABOR
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Child labor is one of the issues that is considered to be one of the influential social issues
that is dragging the society backward. It is astonishing that, even after a lot of awareness
generation programs all over the word, this era of scientific advancement is not able to get rid of
dreadful issues like child labor. Not only the developing countries but also the developed
countries are affected due to this social dilemma. Child labor is one of the major matter of
concern of sociologists, since the past there decades. Many of the sociologists have marked
poverty as the sole reason behind child labor. Most of the marginal or low –income parents have
the perception that their children can become the ways to meet their basic needs by earning
livelihood and sharing the burden of household expense. The objective of this study is to look at
the opinions of several experts on the matter of social degradation caused by child labor. In this
context, this study throws lights on the remarks made on child labor by two academic sources,
two organizational reports and two media reports.
“The Movements of Working Children and the International Labour Organization. A
Lesson on Enforced Silence.” is one of the significant research works, by Liebel and Invernizzi
that focuses on the fact how child labor curbs the rights of the children (Liebel & Invernizzi,
2019). This article has revealed the root causes behind child labor. This article argues that, even
in the developed countries like Australia child labor is one of the social issues, which is dragging
the country backward. According to this article, it is the lack of basic education that, poor parents
force their children to leave school and engage in hazardous works. According to this article,
nearly 73 million children in the country of Australia are affected by the hazardous labor that
they are forced to do (Liebel & Invernizzi, 2019). The article “The Movements of Working
Children and the International Labour Organization. A Lesson on Enforced Silence.” has used
evidences from “Labor Rights and Child Labor Laws in Australia”, for the purpose of

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establishing the facts. Arguments are presented and supported by child labor laws. This article
has claimed that child labor exploits the childhood and abolishes the future potentialities of the
children. This article has suggested that, each child should be saved from the economic
exploitation of the country they are living in. No child should be forced to be engaged in
hazardous work. Or in other words the ‘rights to education ‘of a child should not be intervened
by any kind of laborious works, which the child is forced to do by his or her parents or relatives
or extended family that help them earning their livelihood (Liebel & Invernizzi, 2019). This
article has used the theory of “exploitative child labor”. The theory has been defined using two
of the key features. Firstly, imperfect information or lack of knowledge of the parents about how
exploitative child labor can become, or how child labor abolishes the all kind of growth
potentialities of a child. Secondly, the firms employing little children in work do not only violate
child labor laws but also foster physical as well as mental torture of children (Liebel &
Invernizzi, 2019).
Besides physical and mental torture there are more dreadful incidences that child laborers
of the developing countries, need to undergo. The academic research article, “The working hours
of unpaid child workers in the handloom industry in India”, has focused on the exploitation of
child laborers by firms. As the evidence, this article has talked about the exploitation of child
laborers through hazardous work and wage discrimination. This article has used World
Economic Journal, as the evidences for the facts they have included. According to this article, the
rates of exploitation of child laborers are high in the developed countries like Australia. Nearly
44% of the total labor force of Australia is child labor below the age of 11 years who are
exploited by wage discrimination (Pal, et al., 2016). In order to present the arguments, this article
has shown that, children in the developing countries are forced to do hazardous work and receive