Those nice shoes that you want for Christmas, guess who made them, a child younger than you spent hours a day creating a pair of shoes for just $1. Child labor is very common for all major corporations because it is cheaper than paying full wages to people in the United States. Companies like Nike Inc. have people as young as 14 working in their factories. Nike has just recently raised the age to 18 for people allowed to work in shoe factories and 16-years-old for other manufacturing plants. Working in factories is not a place for children to work. The wages that workers overseas are paid is horrendous and is not enough to justify how much people work each day. Companies like these should be boycotted, their merchandise should not be bought until they change the situations in Second and Third World Countries. …show more content…
In the article “Nike Pledges to End Child Labor and Apply U.S. Rules Abroad,” it states that shoe factories use heavy machinery in addition to dangerous, raw material. In this raw material there are diluters that contribute to toxic air pollution. In the article “This Company Is Employing Children? Let’s boycott their products! Or better not?” it says that the phrase “Work done by children,” is an extremely broad expression. This “work,” that they do is along the lines of forced labor, carrying heavy weights, and other activities that put children’s well-being at risk. Minimum wage in the Florida is around $8 an hour, but, what do you think the children in countries overseas make? In the article “Nike Pledges to End Child Labor and Apply U.S. Rules Abroad,” it talks about the wages that child workers make in other countries. In China and Vietnam children make less than $2 a day! In Indonesia workers make less than $1 a day. However, prices in other countries are significantly lower. Therefore, workers need to make at least $3 a day to meet the needs of an adequate