Human Rights at Home and Abroad: Past, Present, and Future

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that the minor workers had lied about their age, therefore, he figured there was no way to prove that they knew, or did not know, about the ages of the workers (Preston). With that statement, he had gotten the company in more trouble because he was proving that, upon hiring these employees, they did not ask for legal identification or documents, proving that they were legal. Even though it was known that the people they were hiring could be illegal, they were still forced to begin very hard work at a young age, with the employers not caring what it could mentally, physically, or emotionally do to these people. They are usually only concerned about the company‘s productions and not the children's well-being Children working in large factories usually end up with terrible injuries that can sometimes be fatal (Wilhelm). The companies do not train the children in how to use the machines, and they are too young to understand (Wilhelm). In an interview John Allett, a victim of child labor, described what it was like to work in the textile factories at the age of fourteen. I was an eye-witness of one. A child was working wool, that is, to prepare the wool for the machine; but the strap caught him, as he was hardly awake, and it carried him into the machinery; and we found one limb in one place, one in another, and he was cut to bits; his whole body went it, and was mangled (Sadler) With such harmful harmful surroundings and demanding job, child labor can almost be considered modern day slavery. The children who work so hard so young are taught that they are working for many justified reasons. The very first, and most common, reason is to help bring more income into their family household (Clarence). With the economy being in such poor condition right now, people are losing their jobs left and right. Many who are losing jobs are losing the little income that they were receiving. The parents tell the children that by helping out with money, they can make things better for their family. At the age of thirteen, many children who come from a poor household, are given the responsibility to take care of the house. A child explained to a reporter, I only bring home about a dollar a day. If I were to go to school, or miss a day of work, my family would not be able to eat for the day. They would go to bed hungry, and it 39
would be my fault. I need to be able to take care of my family now, and prepare myself for taking care of my family when I am grown (Foster). With the children being home all the time in order to work, they are not sent to any type of schooling. They are told that the education they would get at a school would not be useful in their every day lives. According to the Human Rights Watch, 45 percent of children who work in the agriculture sector in the United States drop out of high school. (Knowledge) Children are told working for their whole lives will help to teach them self-discipline, leadership, hard work, and how to plan for and raise their own family when the time comes (Clarence). Another reason it is encouraged for children to work is social roles. In America today, it is seen that boys have to be very manly, unemotional, and strong. They need to be the ―man of the house‖. This is known as the cowboy syndrome, where all young boys are taught that they need to be the main providers for their families. Unfortunately, children are also sent to work when crisis strikes. If parents or guardians were to fall ill or pass away, they would then pass the responsibility on to their children to help take care of each other. One would expect the oldest child to take responsibility for the rest of the family, but in reality, it is almost impossible. If the oldest child is younger than sixteen, they are not able to get a job that would be able to support themselves alone. One option they would have would to be for them and their siblings to go to an orphanage where they can stay together until the oldest child is eighteen. At the point, they would be able to get a reliable job that would be able to support the expenses of the entire remaining family. Even though all of the above reasons come with good intentions, it is still breaking the law. The reason there are laws against children working such jobs is because their bodies are too underdeveloped to handle to extreme conditions they can be put through. Many times it ends in permanent injury to the children or it can be potentially fatal (Clarence). The most depressing part of this hateful act is that majority of the employers of underage children know the health risks, and continue with making them work anyway. The type of employers don‘t really care about the child‘s health, they only care about making a profit. Having to work so intensely can be really frightening to a child, it is likely that they will never forget what they went through while working under these conditions. 40
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