Child Labor in China and India
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India activists decry Gap child labor
The Indian children reportedly found making clothes for Gap Inc. should be reunited with their families and compensated by the government, activists said Monday amid a spreading scandal about the use of child labor by the international clothing chain.
The reported discovery of children as young as 10 sewing clothes for clothing retailer Gap Inc. in a New Delhi factory has renewed concerns about child labor in India, but government officials offered no comment Monday.
“The biggest responsibility here lies with the Indian government — they don’t develop a way of monitoring” factories, said Bhuwan Ribhu, a lawyer who works with Bachpan Bachao Andolan, or the Save Childhood Movement.
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Where are the parents of these children and where is the Indian government that should be crushing this decimation of their culture?
Another question relating to Chinese manufacturing of our toys: Is it all about money or is there an underlying Chinese conspiracy to poison America?
As someone who has actually been inside a factory (my guess is that’s pretty rare around here), in the Third World (unique) with child labor (off the scale), let me tell you some facts.
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1) The families send the children to work in the factories.
2) In almost all cases, the children are the main — if not sole — breadwinner of the family.
3) The alternative to working in a factory is not going to school.
4) The alternative to working in a factory is not playing with a ball in a big grassy field straight out of a Norman Rockwell painting.
5) The alternative to working in a factory is (take your pick) shining shoes on the street, petty theft, more serious crimes, or prostitution.
6) The factories are not owned by Nike, the Gap or Wal-Mart.
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Don’t know what happened to my post of a couple of hours ago . . .
As someone who has actually been inside a factory (probably not many others around here have), in the Third World (now we’re talking real rare) that employed child labor (unique, I’m sure) . . .
The truth—
(1) The families know the children are working in the factories. The parents got them their first jobs.
(2) The children are frequently the major – or sole – breadwinner for the family.
(3) The alternative to working in a factory is not going to school.
(4) The alternative to working in a factory is not playing with your friends on a big grassy lawn with nice adult supervision.
(5) The alternative to working in a factory is shining shoes on the street, petty theft, other not-so-petty crimes, or prostitution.
India and China’s current condition doesn’t seem all that different from the U.S. scene in 1899.
Who are we to deny them this experience? Wasn’t it these kinds of slave labor conditions that led to our own labor reforms? Isn’t it possible that this is a natural evolution in the industrialization of developing economies?
The only reason we (U.S. citizens) are concerned is because it negatively affects our ability to compete. We love those cheap prices, and corporate revenues (stock prices) though!
David
This sounds like what people said about why not to free slaves pre-civil war!
Read the last line, Mr Konop:
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This is EXACTLY what the rich corrupt corporations want to bring America back to. Filthy slave-holder descendents.