My topic will be on Child Labor in China. The children are usually between the age of 5-17. The factory workers just pay them a little.They have to work for long hours in extreme conditions in the factories. They have to work under risky circumstances. But those kids still work because their family needs that source of income. Their families are poor so they have to work to support their family.They leave school to help support their family because the school fees are too high, they can't afford it.Some of these kids would even use fake ID cards to show they are 16 or older.Here is an example: a headmaster of a school employed students from his school to work in his private toy factory. When he was caught, he said he was just giving these kids an opportunity to earn money. In China, they have a law that doesn't allow children under the age of 16 to work. But they say under special circumstances, these kids can work Ex:"Educational Labor"~basically schools would have their students do some work like growing and harvesting crops. But most employers end up abusing this law and make their students do a lot of heavy labor. Ex: In Sichuan, 500 children were found working 14 hour shifts in a factory. Their school employed to work during the summer. The living conditions were poor, not enough food etc.The problem is that China doesn't do much to enforce its laws. International Labor Standards- their job is to make sure that there is no child labor in poor countries etc. They try to help by organizing labor unions to do that.
Sources:
http://childlabour.in/child-labour-in-china.htm
http://www.china-labour.org.hk/en/node/15889
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