Krista Carlin Mrs. Tavella Honors English 9 2 November 2014 Child labor in Asia Child labor is the gainful employment of children below an age determined by law or custom (Dictionary.com). Children in Asia work in factories and sweatshops. The children who are working in these factories and sweatshops are being deprived of going to school. Since some children start working before the age of ten, they are not getting proper education; therefore, the children are not learning to read or write. This leads to a vicious cycle of poverty and no hope of the cycle ever ending. Most children work this young because their families are poor and they do not have enough money to provide food and shelter for entire families. Children working in sweatshops …show more content…
Most of the children came from poor families, sometimes when parents could not support their children they turned them over to a mill of factory (History of Child Labor). Even though today we live in such a modern century, there are still child slave labors in Asia. Slavery has always been a huge problem since the ancient time all around the world. Children have been kidnapped or traded to other places to become slaves ( Child Labor in China 2). The International Labor Standards job is to make sure that there is no child labor in poor countries. They try to help countries by organizing labor rules against labor unions. China has rules against child labor but sadly, they do not do much to enforce the laws (Child Labor in China). Many of the children work in sweatshops, factories, companies, farms, and in many other harsh environments. Some of the most controversial forms of child labor include the military use of children and child prostitution (Child Labor in China 2). They are paid less than other workers, some of them are not even paid, but they are given places to live and things to eat. Once a child serves as a slave, they will serve for the rest of their lives. The next generations would have to be slaves and the cycle would continue forever (Child Labor in China …show more content…
A survey conducted by a non-government organization has found that up to 90 percent of 2,298 children, boys and girls, who work in brick-making factories in the Sorkhrod District of Nangarhar Province do not go to school (Afghanistan). There are about 556 families that live in mud-huts and shacks around brick-factories in the Sorkhrod District. Almost all of these families said they owed large amounts of money to factory owners and a group of brick merchants who have employed them as wage laborers (Afghanistan). “ Debt levels vary from 40,000 Afghans, which is equivalent to $800 in the United States, to 100,000 Afghans, which is equivalent to $2,000 in the US,” said Haji Hayat Khan, director of the department of labour