I'll introduce different perspectives here.
First, I found a opinion of Zarah Jamal and Ismael Rhissa. This opinion is that people who dont agree with child labor, but we shouldn't ban it. They partly disagree with child labor, but dont agree with ban it.
Zarah Jamal is an enterprise-risk consultant. She was born in Montreal of Pakistani immigrants. From now on, i'll introduce her opinion.
Child labor should be protected, not banned. It's easy to say that children should be in school and educated, but some if we banned labor itself, other serious problems will be occurred. For example, theft, drag trafficking and hunger. It is because children and thier family managed to live with little money children have gained that day especially in India, Pakistan, Niger, Cambodia or any number of other Third World countries. If there are no wages of children, it create danger to death because of no money.
The instinctive reaction is to support an end to child labour, but on a deeper level we need to ask ourselves whether a ban merely opens the door to other unintended consequences. People who easily says that we have to eliminate child labor don't understand actual situation of children. What we have to do is just helping them learn English. for example, we open up many more opportunities for them as they grow up. To create such oppotunities lead to the next stage for the country and children themselves.
http://www.montrealgazette.com/touch/story.html?id=8377695
Secondly, i'll introduce opinion that is completely disagree against child labor. I'll introduce opinion of Dave Neil, who is the Iowa Labor Commissioner, from an article of NY times. Iowa is a kind of state which was found numbers of child labor.
State labor invetigators have identified 57under-age workers who were employed at a kosher meatpacking plant, and have asked the attorney to bring criminal charges against the company. Since we found these kinds of issue at present, we have to clamp down child labor by law. Children worked at the plant included children who made work in prohibited occupations, exposing them to hazardous chemicals and making prohibited tools like knives or saws.
Maybe more children are working over our expectation, because most chidren were hired by a false documents. I urged Tom Miller, who is the Iowa attorney general to prosecure to the full extent of the law.
I think Iowa law requires employers to make an extra effort to determine the date of birth of workers who could be minors, including asking for a birth certificate or other official proof of age. That is a tip for elimination of child labor.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/06/us/06meat.html?ref=childlabor&pagewanted
last week, i introduced these perspectives to our classmates. after that, i got many comments about them. i'll post here about these opinions.
返信削除against the first perspective, one people thought that law shold prohibit child labor, drug trafficking and other problem. it is srtange that we just think reguration against child labor increase other children problems.
to the second perspective, most people were surprised that there is such a government which noticed the severe situation. government's notice against this problem is one of the growth according to child labor because many governments haven't take measures against this yet.
as a whole, many people seemed to have thought that we shoud prohibit child labor even if children have serious reasons like economic one. we have to keep children away from labor, and at the same time, we have to make a situation that children dont have to work.