Children involvement is something companies tend to keep underneath the radar. The children might not be working in the sweatshops but they still are being used. The materials that workers use to make our clothes today are often harvested by children, example: Cotton from Uzbekistan is a major resource. This is just a little bit of information on what child labour is:
In some countries there are laws against child labour. In New Brunswick the labour laws clearly state that if you are under the age of fourteen, you can not be employed in any work area. Between the age of fourteen and sixteen you can not work in a place where it can be hazardous to a person’s health, and you may not work for more then six hours a day, three hours on a school night, 8 hours in a day combining school and work. In other countries although there is no labour laws or the government just doesn’t care enough to do anything about it. In Uzbekistan there are 1.4 million children between the age of five and fourteen who work in the cotton fields. For one kg of cotton a child gets paid 3 cents which gets sold for a $1.15 on the global market. For 10kg they get paid 38 cents. In Uzbekistan schools are even shut down so kids can work in the fields. If these kids do not meet the targets the “masters” have told them too they are punished in various ways and children who try to run face expulsion.
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