Word: labors
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...Prairie Region of Canada where I grew up and live, child labor was looked upon as both a necessity and an asset not all that long ago. In the first half of the 20th century, many children of Canadian farm families--including my mother--were taken out of school so they could help in the developing agricultural economy. They were cheap farm laborers. To suggest that all child labor is bad is to embrace a type of political correctness that has not been thought through. Would the North American advocates who oppose all child labor prefer that the children...
...PRICE OF CHILD LABOR...
...apparel industry, like many others, has become global, but nowhere do responsible U.S. clothing manufacturers condone abusive labor practices or the employment of children. Unfortunately, sweatshop conditions do exist in the U.S. and around the world. However, the assertion by Labor Secretary Robert Reich that half of the 22,000 U.S. garment contractors are sweatshops paying less than the minimum wage is absolutely wrong. We are astounded by this irresponsible denunciation of our industry after the efforts we have made to combat sleazy practices. For a U.S. government official to stigmatize an industry that manufactures $50 billion worth of consumer...
Manufacturers make their products in Third World countries because it is much cheaper to operate there: they can pay native workers much less than Americans, and they can use child labor, the cheapest kind in the market. When Americans get angry, they can change things for the better. In this case, Americans could refuse to buy the offending products and demand accurate information on the labels of everything they purchase. If you can have a label that says NOT TESTED ON ANIMALS, you can also have one saying NO CHILD LABOR WAS USED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF THIS PRODUCT...
Kessler-Harris said the letter was meant to appeal to Challinor's sympathies as an historian familiar with research on women and labor practices...