BA3LC32O - Academic Performance: Analyzing Child Labor vs. Poverty

This case study examines the complex issue of child labor in relation to poverty, exploring arguments for and against its use. It references various laws, NGOs, and scholarly articles discussing the ethical and practical considerations of child labor, including its impact on education, health, and economic development. The study highlights the need for addressing the root causes of child labor, such as poverty and lack of access to education, and advocates for strict implementation of laws and policies to protect children. It concludes that while child labor may seem like a solution to immediate poverty, it ultimately hinders national development by creating an uneducated workforce. The report recommends creating conditions where children have access to free education and enforcing strict guidelines to prevent child labor in any sector. Desklib provides access to this and similar case studies for students.

Academic performance
Child labour

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Child labour............................................................................................................................3
Literature Review...................................................................................................................3
Recommendation and conclusion....................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
There are many children about one out of ten who are labouring globally. They are the
one who should be in school but due to other and many circumstances they are not able to get to
their school and get the education for them and forced to labour either intentionally or due to
economic condition. There are many reason behind this and due to increase in the child labour
there are many of the rules and regulation which can provide safety from child labour. There are
different act which has been made by government in relation to provide them safety.
MAIN BODY
Child labour
This is the one in which there are many of the children who are working as a labour to
different organization or small company. In this, they are having the right to get educated but due
to financial problem and many other problem there is high chances of getting difficulties in their
study which leads to leave them their study either in middle or in initials stage. Due to child
labour there are many of the country who get uneducated youth and in relation to get better
opportunity there are many act and rules which are there to provide them opportunity to get
educated and to stay away form the child labour. There are different law which provide them
some security in relation to get better and quality of life (Fritz, 2017).
Argument against use of child labour
According to van der Ploeg, there are many of the country which are facing the same
problem of child labour and there is need to finish this issues soon. In relation to this,
government has taken different measures to provide and keep child away form labour. There are
different act which was proposed by the government in relation to provide child away form the
unfair labour. Some of the acts like Factory Act (1833) and Mines Act (1842). Both act are in
favour of provide safety form the child labour and to provide them the better life through this.
There are other some of the law which are there made for them in relation to stop the child
labour which was one of the biggest problem in development of country in that days. Some of
the laws are like Licensing Act 1964 which is the act that is made to prohibit the child labour or
employment of children form bars and different licensed premises (van der Ploeg, 2017). There
are different Non Governmental Organization (NGO), which are there in the country in relation
to prevent and keep child safe and away form child labour. Some of the NGO's are like Love

146, Global March Against Child Labour, Stop Child Labour Coalition, Save the Children and
many more (Konrad and et. al., 2017).
According to Akbarzada, there are many of the organization who are there in the country
which are able to help children to get better and educated like in relation to provide them better
and successful health benefits. These are the one which can help to get better health for the
children in relation to get better health and life that can help the country to get developed. There
are different reasons like poverty, access to free education, inadequate laws and enforcement,
workers rights, violation of existing laws and codes of conduct that can help to get better
condition in relation to child labour. There are different NGO who works in this to reduce the
child labour. There are different things which needs to take in mind that to finish child labour
there in need to first finish the cause due to which child are getting towards the labour and not
able to get proper education. Not getting education is one of the reason which leads to poverty
because without education there is very little job opportunities which can be held by them to
better their life. (Akbarzada, 2018).
Argument for use of child labour
There is need to improve the quality of life and in relation to this, there is need for child
labour rather than die with poverty. There is need to improve the economic condition which can
lead to better condition of children. This can help to get better benefit when there should be
change in the source of income for children with poverty. When cause for getting child labour
get finished there is high chances to finish of child labour itself. There is also need to implement
some strict law which can lead to get better implementation of law in such a manner that no one
should force any child for labour. Child labour are highly use in the supply chain in which they
generally performed in small workshops or homes. There are many children who are engaged in
production of intentionally traded goods along with services. There are different distribution
system in which child labour are used for delivering and carrying goods from one to another
places or within workshops. Child labour can be due to many reason like community poverty,
lack of decent work etc, which leads to child labour and generally use in the supply chain to
make the job done in little amount.
According to Gheewala, child labour is not good for the health of country in which there
is need to reduce and to stop the child labour which is there due to any of the cause. In relation to
finish child labour, there in need to first create the situation in which children can get better

benefit and not to get enforce for the labour. There is need to first full fill the required things that
can help children not to labour again. Child labour pushed the country backward which is due to
not having educated youth that can lead to healthy and developed country (Prasara-A and
Gheewala, 2018). Bannning of child labour can lead to pressure on poor family in which there is
high need to contribute in family for better living. To ban child labour which is required for the
better development of country for its educated youth. Educated youth are the pillar of educated
country who can take the country lead in such a manner that they can use their mind for better
development in each area that can lead to development of country either directly or indirectly. To
implement this, in effective way, there is need to get better plan and strategy which can lead to
get better outcome rather than banning child labour.
Recommendation and conclusion
Form above discussion, it can be conclude that child labour is not good for country
development. There is need to finish the child labour and for this, each and every person needs to
take the responsibility to reduce and finish it. It is recommended that there is need to create the
condition in which children get free education which should be in rights of children to get
educated. There is also need to have some strict implementation of law in relation to reduce and
finish the child labour. It is hard to find out all the places and sector where child labor is
conducted, so, there is need to make some policy and strict guidelines that can implement in well
manner to avoid the use of child labour in any sector. Child labour should be avoided to provide
better environment at workplace and for better growth of children. In this report, there is
discussion about the law and regulation which are there able to help for reduce the child labour.
There is discussion about the use of child labour in supply chain. There are different laws and
thought of different people which have the similar thought related with child labour.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Fritz, 2017. Selected sustainability aspects for supply chain data exchange: Towards a supply
chain-wide sustainability assessment. Journal of Cleaner Production, 141, pp.587-607.
van der Ploeg, 2017. A tool for improving the management of social and human rights risks at
project sites: The Human Rights Sphere. Journal of Cleaner Production, 142, pp.4072-
4084.
Konrad and et. al., 2017. Overcoming human trafficking via operations research and analytics:
Opportunities for methods, models, and applications. European Journal of Operational
Research, 259(2), pp.733-745.
Prasara-A and Gheewala, 2018. Applying social life cycle assessment in the Thai sugar industry:
challenges from the field. Journal of Cleaner Production, 172, pp.335-346.
Akbarzada, 2018. The Syrian public health and humanitarian crisis: A ‘displacement’in global
governance?. Global Public Health, 13(7), pp.914-930.