In this paper, we examine the consequences of India’s landmark legislation against child labor, the Child Labor (Prohibition and Regulation) Act of 1986. Using data from employment surveys conducted before and after the ban, and using age restrictions that determined who the ban applied to, we show that child wages decrease and child labor increases after the ban.
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Isn’t he the punk who as a 12yo lectured da liddel thief on child labour?
I see he went on to greatness as a poverty pimp…the we’re here for the children crowd.
Ok now I’ve got it. Phony
I suspect the result was that kids went hungry when their parents couldn’t afford to feed them.
Funny thing about child labour when the choice is work or starve to death.
Can’t impose N Am “values” on others.
My guess the reduction of Western Society has a stronger base in culture-core family not extended family-value of Child.
A contributing revenue Child is of value for the contribution of Revenue. An educated Child is of value to a core family, not to extended family expectations.
Muslim values of extended family claims are or become a drain on the growth of a core family into a -enlightened family-a more comfortable life- and the other possible focus on the future.
But this is only possible/practical when the culture of the nation/tribe accepts such restrictions on the expectations of the {extended family}. I believe one of Aristotle’s tenets is the necessity to live within the requirements of the Community.
This then brings forward Canada’s Values and Culture. Possibly now under great pressure on Unenlightened Communities of Islam protected by the– First of Sharia laws–becoming a Special Voting Block through a Majority fiat of the (proven corrupt) Liberal Party Government.
Controlling the type of labour available to a child. in the early days of Industrial Britain children as young as Four Years of age were employed to sit by moving conveyor belts of Coal to kick the bouncing lumps back onto the moving mass of material.
The out cry and turmoil, Robert Owen for reference, stopped this through regulation. The use of children became a cost benefit situation so alternatives to cheap labour was initiated. IMHO
“Isn’t he the punk who as a 12yo lectured da liddel thief on child labour? ”
Yup. In all his rehearsed earnestness. And I think that the word punk, when used in the sense that you used it, benefits from the adjective precocious.
he is a big part of the poverty industry now . writes for the NP
First of all, culture matters. In some cultures, back-breaking labour for children is acceptable.
Secondly, if said labour bothers people, don’t patronise businesses that allow it. One would think the ribbon-wearing class would get a clue.
Thirdly, education helps break the cycle of poverty and caste systems. This is seen in India with Catholic education being available to any who want it.
Fourthly, ingenuity should be used instead of slave labour (ie – mechanisation where possible). But that takes know-how, ect. It’s much cheaper to use kids (see first point).
That little brat needs a good beating. Obviously coached by his “progressive” parents at an early age. At age 12, a normal kid knows squat about world affairs or human rights.
It is to laugh for him to lecture about child labor when I’ll warrant he never had a paper route or mowed lawns for extra money.
Yes, he is one of the founders of WE day, a creepy “fox in sheeps clothing” meeting for pubescent Tweens, soft selling progress is as a fun, inclusive, most awesomeness day. Featured speakers have included the usual suspects, including of course, PM Dummy
I am most greatly interested in how many children of their own the Kielburger brothers have brought into this world
Does anybody know ?
The lesson, everyone learns, eventually; the real minimum wage is zero.
So let me get this straight. The government touched something and made it worse?
Now I’ve seen everything.
I keep thinking the vast majority of the unwashed masses are going to pick up on this little tidbit of seemingly common knowledge, yet every damn time I turn around there’s some turd asking the government to look after something for him.
I cannot help but think of Mike Rowe when reading this story about child labor. Not that Mike Rowe has ever advocated child exploitation, but rather in the sense that working children are learning a trade that will potentially provide them with a job for life. Mike Rowe advocating trade education.
http://www.insideedition.com/consumer/6544-dirty-jobs-mike-rowe-encourages-students-to-learn-a-trade
Perhaps higher education is the best and only option for personal improvement in a place like India … but here in the affluent USA … there is a dearth of skilled tradespeople not college graduates. We have become, perhaps, over-educated or at the least mis-educated by a leftist academic Cabal. I think of, at a minimum, all the life skills a kid growing up on a farm learns from childhood physical labor. I don’t believe the child labor laws extend to the family farm … where kids learn everything from animal husbandry (is that a feminist verboten word now?) to motor vehicle maintenance … even finance and commodity trading. While most urban and suburban kids are learning how to operate a play station joystick … the farm kid is learning vital life skills. Working kids isn’t quite the 19th century horror that we envision it to be.
there is a dearth of skilled tradespeople not college graduates
We hear that a lot here, too, but I have three friends who decided to go into the skilled trades and eventually gave up due to the guild protectionism, regulatory capture and sundry other entirely legal practices designed to keep new entrants out of the industry and protect the existing players. So I’m a little skeptical that there actually are options available here.
“…yet every damn time I turn around there’s some turd asking the government to look after something for him. ”
Aye, indeed. You nailed it. And the 99.9 percent that don’t ask for it won’t speak out against it.
I think the real minimum wage is Excused Death by Torture.
There’s a difference between “child labor” where the kid essentially gets sold to a factory, and “child labor” where the kid is picking weeds out of the tomatoes on the family farm. Either one of those two scenarios is better than the kid dies of starvation because there’s no money to feed him.
So if you’re going to be all Goody Two Shoes and wade into somebody else’s country, you better be damn sure the thing you are proposing is going to actually WORK. Yes, child labor is bad. Yes, poverty is bad. The answer to poverty and child labor is not to let them starve because of government regulations.
Life is hard. It gets made harder by stupid liberals.
I think I had a Kielburger at A&W the other day.