Child Labor and Sweatshops
Child Labor and Sweatshops | Child Labor and Sweatshops: An Overview
Charles S. Clark is a former staff writer for CQ Researcher, a weekly report on current social issues.
Summary: Concern about the use of child labor and sweatshops has grown as retailers in industrialized nations have increasingly come to rely on low-wage workers—often people in developing nations—to produce goods. Labor leaders and human rights activists point out that many factories in the garment, carpet, and sports equipment industries employ young children and subject workers to long hours, poor pay, physical and verbal abuse, and...
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Table of Contents
- Child Labor and Sweatshops: An Overview
- An Indictment of Sweatshops
- A Defense of Sweatshops
- Sweatshops Must Be Recognized as a Human Rights Violation
- Sweatshops Often Benefit the Economies of Developing Nations
- Child Labor Is Beneficial
- The United States Should Ban Imports of Products Made by Children
- Efforts to Ban Goods Made by Children Are Counterproductive
- Consumer Pressure Can Reduce the Use of Sweatshops
- Efforts to Reduce the Use of Sweatshops Are Misguided
- International Partnerships Must Reduce the Use of Child Labor
- Campaigns Against Child Labor Are Protectionist and Imperialist
- Workplace Codes Could Prevent Sweatshop Abuses
- Workplace Codes Will Not Prevent Sweatshop Abuses
- Product Labeling Programs May Not Reduce Child Labor
- Youth Activism Can Help Reduce Child Labor
- Educators Should Encourage Student Activism Against the Use of Sweatshops
- Organizations to Contact
- Bibliography
- Copyright
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