Child Labor Causes

“Global number of children in child labor has declined by one third since 2000, from 246 million to 168 million children. More than half of them, 85 million, are in hazardous work*”. We have all at one point seen or read an article of young girls and boys being abducted or simply forced into manual labor. Many reasons have been given as to why child labor occurs in these foreign countries such as: poverty, low pay, and unskilled work. These foreign companies or sweatshops find it easy to simply abduct poor and uneducated children, and force them into slavery for little to no pay and horrible working conditions. This is because there is greater demand for low skilled, and low cost labor that employers prefer to fill with child labor, instead

Poverty in many cases becomes the main cause for children to drop out but it has also been reported that costly school fees, and lack of educational resources in rural and countryside areas are some main reasons. China has always been put under the spotlight for being one of the top nations in the world to use child labor, and by no means try to enforce their laws to stop this. There have been many cases in China were workshops are raided and hundreds of abducted children forced into slavery are found working under horrible conditions and against there will. The problem is that China’s government does not have to disclose to the public about their child labor reports. This makes it unclear to know exactly how many children whether abducted or not are working in these types of places. I will try to go more in depth into the critical and horrible working conditions in which these kids are put through, the main causes of child labor in china today, and finally try to come up with possible ideas the government and its people could make to reduce and eventually stop this

Here many uneducated children, who do not have the financial resources to stay in school, migrate into big urban cities in search of jobs to make ends meet. The type of work that these young kids go and find are usually very labor intensive jobs such as textile, clothing, shoe, and toy manufacturing. Where they need little to no prior knowledge of working, and are put in long hours and very repetitive jobs. During my research I found that in China it is more common to see young girls working either in workshops or in the street, than it is for young boys. This is due to the fact that girls in China are not forced by their parents to complete their studies. The government of China does have laws and rules against the use of child labor in factories. There are special agencies that specifically go to each and every workshop or factory every year in search of child labor. The only problem with these laws and agencies is that they are not very enforcing. When an employer is caught using child labor, whether it is forced, excessive, or in hazardous