Реферат: Child Abuse Essay Research Paper People in

Child Abuse Essay, Research Paper

People in the rich world tend to assume that child labor, like

slavery, is something that was abolished a century ago and that now only

exists in third world countries. This can not be any further from the

reality of this issue. In fully developed countries like Canada and the

United States, parents encourage their children to have a job at an

early age, as a way of letting their children gain experience of the

real world. Few people see it as exploite that a child should work

(for example to have a paper route) even if they are paid less than

adult wages and local child-labour laws are infringed by their working

before seven in the morning and after seven o’clock in the evening.

Child labour’ in general is too explosive and negative a word to be

applied to all children workers. It is insulting to those whose lives

are ruined by hard labor to lump them into the same category as those

children who help out in the family shop after school. If people treat

all work by children as equally unacceptable they are trivializing the

whole issue and making it less likely to be able to root out the most

damaging forms of child labor. It is simply the nature and conditions

of children’s work that determines whether they are exploited, not the

plain fact of their work age. Another term that is too loosely used in

the business world and elsewhere is that of a sweatshop’. The term

sweatshop’ stems from the word sweating, originally used in the late

19th century America. It was thought to describe “a subcontracting

system in which the middlemen earned their profit from the margin

between the amount they received for a contract and the amount they paid

workers”. This margin was said to be sweated’ from the workers because

they received minimal wages for excessive hours worked under unsanitary

conditions.

Unlike some problems that are just surfacing in the world today and are

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