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Post by smartarse on Feb 28, 2006 10:22:44 GMT 10
i recently discovered another cool media monitoring tool i have access to through work - its a database of magazines, and it has some weird ones on it! Anyway, i just read this interesting article about child labour in the sub-continent's rug industry, in a magazine i have never heard of... If you were looking for a market-driven alternative to a top-down, governmental response to child labour, this might be it... www.metropolismag.com/cda/story.php?artid=1762 |
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Post by velvet pants on Feb 28, 2006 20:54:14 GMT 10
Take that evil sweatshop owners - interior decorators are out to get you!
but to be honest i don't really have anything against child labour... really its a lot like school...
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Post by smartarse on Mar 1, 2006 10:13:45 GMT 10
Is that meant as a joke Amit?
Because back in the Dark Ages, a brave and innovative Monash 1 ran an argument very similar to what The Velvet Underpants just suggested in a debate on child labour against Sydney 1 - they were OUTRAGED. We won.
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Post by smartarse on Sept 1, 2006 13:48:02 GMT 10
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Post by smartarse on Sept 7, 2006 10:35:17 GMT 10
This is a pretyt interesting artictle on child labour in India. A new law is about to come into affect that bans the use of children under the age of 14 for domestic work (cleaning/nanny/cooking/etc). Whats good about the article is that it really highlights the complexity of the issue, showing how the alternative to domestic work is not automatically better for the kids, which is why this debate has been so enduring. www.iht.com/articles/2006/09/06/news/letter.php |
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Post by smartarse on Jun 12, 2008 14:43:14 GMT 10
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Post by n on Jun 13, 2008 16:44:29 GMT 10
Wow I thought that there was finally an interesting matter conversation up and running, but alas, it was merely tim talking to himself and an occaisional joke from amit!
I thought this was particularly interesting:
But child labor has also emerged where it was unknown until relatively recently.
"Prior to 1990, child labor was nonexistent in Mongolia," said Kh. Ganbaatar, executive director of the Mongolian Employers' Federation, which is working with the government, civil society groups and the ILO to address the problem.
He said up to 10,000 children worked in unregulated gold, coal and mineral mines in the peak summer season.
Even if child labour can be justified in some circumstances, I think children working in coal mines has got to be a bad idea.
Also interesting that they blame the transition to capitalism for the problem. Implies that there isn't a 'you need children to work to feed the family' problem, unless the transition has changed the access to welfare in Mongolia (which I imagine wasn't a lot to start with).
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Post by smartarse on Jun 17, 2008 13:34:29 GMT 10
I've been talking to myself for so long i can't tell if Nic really posted or if i just imaginged it...
At the rest of responding to imaginary voices, i'd say the point about the transition to capitalism as a catalyst for child would i think have more to do with the expansion of the cash economy (away from more subsistance and agarian economies/communities).
While thats just a guess, i think it might partially explain the prevalance of child labour in places like Bangladesh, where traditional village-based economies changed to in response to the growth of the cash economy (borrowing money = debt = cash cropping = shift from subsistance to specialisation). Which is probably why things like microcredit are so successful in those cases in comparison to top-down aid through governments. Again, just a theory.
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