Child Labor In Asia

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...the labor of children to fuel its factories and other industries. The region is not unique, by any means, in this regard, however. Indeed, child labor has been an aspect of human society since the beginning of mans reign on earth. As soon as a child was able to perform even the most menial of chores he or she was assigned that responsibility in many cultures. This was a necessary component of surviving in a sometimes harsh and inhospitable environment. Everyone, even the very young and the very old in these cultures had to earn their keep. Industrialization, however, has had extremely deleterious impacts on such practices in modern day Asia and other countries around the world. Instead of expecting children to bear a proportional load in terms of societal subsistence, today much of the world is guilty of looking at their children as industrial workhorses. Palley (2002) estimates the number of working children ages five to fourteen around the world at approximately 250 million. Asia holds the greatest percentage of these children, some 152.5 million (20 percent...

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