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How is Child Labour Portrayed in the Fashion Industry, Particularly with Nike?

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Child Labour in the Nike Industry

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Nike has been accused of using child labor in the production of its soccer balls in Pakistan. This case study will examine the claims and describe the industry and its impact on laborers and their working conditions. While Pakistan has laws against child labor and slavery, the government has taken very little action to combat it

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Nike: Exploiter of Children

202002 — 2014-03-19 00:54:36 UTC

Recently if you go to a shop to buy your child a new soccer ball. There is a good possibility that the ball has been made by someone your child's age or even younger. About half of the world's soccer ball are made in Pakistan, and each one of them passes through a process of production where child labor is involved. This problem not only pertains to Pakistan but is worldwide. More than 200 children, some as young as 4 and 5 years of age, are involved in the production line. Majority of these children work in Asia, e.g in the nations of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Indonesia.

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Nike always land up in places having cheap or bonded labours or in places where it can easily get away with illegal labor practices?" Examples include: Vietnam, China, Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh and India. Nike simply bases its operations on finding the lowest-cost labor to make its products. Twelve-year-old girls work in Indonesian sweatshops 70 hours a week making Nike shoes in unhealthy plants. Pakistan has a per-capita income of $1,900 per year -meaning that a typical person survives barely on $5 per day.

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Child Labour Problems

200839 — 2014-03-20 14:10:04 UTC

Increasing the demand of the products produced by child labour means encouraging more child labour, encouraging more birth rates, more slavery, increasing sweatshops and discouraging education - as parents of the children working in factories would want them to work more and earn more. If this happened to be the case, then more and more children will be bought and sold on the black market. By encouraging more child labor, you are not only taking away those innocent years from them but also the right to be educated and the right to be free.

Interesting Fact

202002 — 2014-03-21 00:22:55 UTC

After the movie " The Hangover" Nike wanted Zach Galifianakis to appear in an advertisement to advertise a new product. During their first meeting, Zach Galifianakis broke the ice by saying "so, you guys still have seven year old's making shoes?"

Accidents and Work Conditions

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Accidents are the leading cause of death for children between the ages of 10 and 19. Teenagers are particularly vulnerable to accidents at work. A 2006 survey found that 1 in 13 youth had been injured on the job. In 2008, 34 workers under 18 died in the workplace. Hazardous child labour is work in dangerous or unhealthy conditions that could result in a child being killed, or injured and/or made ill as a consequence of poor safety and health standards and working arrangements. Some injuries or ill health may result in permanent disability. Often health problems caused by working as a child labour may not develop or show up until the child is an adult.

FACTS

202002 — 2014-03-21 00:26:43 UTC

There are an estimated 27 million slaves in the world today, more than any other time in history.
218 million children aged 5 - 17 are involved in child labour worldwide.
Globally, 1 in 6 children work.
Children below the age of 18 years represent between 40 to 50 percent of all forced labor victims.
The International Labor Organization (ILO) estimates that more than two thirds of all child labour is in the agricultural sector. Children in rural areas begin agricultural labour as young as 5-7 years old.
126 million children work in hazardous conditions, often enduring beatings, humiliation and sexual violence by their employers.
The highest numbers of child laborers are in the Asia/Pacific region, where there are 122 million working children.
The highest proportion of child laborers is in Sub Saharan Africa, where 26 percent of children (49 million) are involved in work.

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Definition

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Child labour is the use of children in industry or business, especially when illegal or considered inhumane. Child Labour is mentally, physically, socially or morally dangerous and harmful to children and it interferes with their schooling by depriving them of the opportunity to attend school. It is also obliging them to leave school prematurely or requiring them to attempt to combine school attendance with excessively long and heavy work.

Here's a video related to Child Labour.

202002 — 2014-03-21 00:51:09 UTC