English Assignments- Child Labor

Running head: ENGLISH ASSIGNMENTS- CHILD LABOR
ENGLISH ASSIGNMENTS- CHILD LABOR
Name of the Student:
Name of the University:
Author note:

1ENGLISH ASSIGNMENT- CHILD LABOR
Several minors of around 6 to 7 years of age appear to be severely malnourished as well
as dejected as they sit at their loom shed and engage in stitching high quality rags which are
being manufactured for high price in various parts of the United States (Nowakowski ). Several
times similar distressing events have been witnessed in various parts of the world especially in
India and its neighboring country, Nepal. Such tormenting contrast of frantic poverty has been
apprehensively producing exceptional and resplendent luxurious items for the affluent sections
of the world population. P.J. Tobia through his conversation in the Ted Talk ‘Change Your Role
in Forced and Child Labor’ has narrated the conditions of these minor aged laborers in factories
or workshops who appear to be severely feeble and could lose their physical strength at any
moment (Tobia). However these sweatshops in which several children have been detained as
well as deprived of proper education and families and most importantly sufficient food and
belongings have been working for extensive durations for meager amounts.
From the information attained from reports by Fontana, Lorenza and Grugel of Cocoa
plantation in Ivory Islands it has been observed that both girls as well as boys of under the age of
10 have been exposed to the dreadful acts of child labor. However in such cases children has
been playing a critical role in the type of work the child tends to perform. It is immensely
distressing to note that factors associated to poverty and economic shocks have been distinctively
playing crucial role in determining the market for child labor (Rosenberg). For example, as per
current empirical investigation conducted by World Bank from Brazil has evaluated that early
engagement in workforce tends to mitigate lifetime incomes by an approximate rate of 14-25%
further heightening the tendency of experiencing financial constraints at the later stage of life
(Schulz, Michaela and Kristian ).

2ENGLISH ASSIGNMENT- CHILD LABOR
Worstall claim that broad array of disagreements that have been intending to make a case
for child labor as well as sweatshop industries in recent times are the same voices that used to
rationalize related conditions of child labor few decades ago. However no justification or
validation can explain the severe conditions of millions of minor aged children across the world
who as young as below the age of 5 are obligated to engage in vicious working conditions in
order to produce clothing, footwear, soccer balls or toys which US consumers can purchase at
high rates being aware or unaware of child exploitation or labor (Paton, Elizabeth and
Lazazzera).
In certain cases, regulations and policies formed to mitigate child labor can generate severe
destructive outcomes rather than showing effective results. Few cases have been executed in
countries like Bangladesh and Pakistan whereby several organizations have strictly forbidden
child labor by undergoing immense subjugation from Western consumers (Worstall). However
those child laborers who were engaged in textile factories and other manufacturing plants lost
their jobs overnight and ended up being engaged in less-paid employment sectors with
extensively distressing work settings such as metal working. Furthermore many children working
as laborers have been witnessed to have engaged in criminal acts or sex trade (Fontana, Lorenza
and Grugel). Wide range of industry owners as well as the elite sections of the society where acts
of child exploitation range at a greater extent give diminutive level of consideration if these
financially as well as emotionally deprived children receive justifiable necessities and needs in
their lives. These sections of exploiters perceive such acts as acceptable because of their poverty
stricken lives. However it is highly crucial to note that child labor can never be a reason to
surpass poverty rather child exploitation tends to perpetuate higher level of financial deficiency
(Nowakowski ).