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This 8-page paper discusses the use of child labor in India and Pakistan, particularly in the textile and apparel industries. Culture and solutions are also examined. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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or through a joint-venture partnership. There is another aspect that western companies face, however, when doing business in countries such as India, Pakistan and other similar emerging markets is that
child labor. This tends to impact a western company when its suppliers contract work out to other suppliers that rely on child labor.
The famous poster child of this is NIKE Inc., which came under fire during the 1990s when a picture of a child in one of its suppliers factories in Pakistan
was stitching together a soccer ball. NIKEs case is not the only one, however - it was just the one that happened to be spotlighted.
How, exactly, do western companies handle overseas suppliers that use child labor? How can a company, especially one involved in textiles or apparel, maintain profitability and stay in
business while avoiding child labor practices in India and Pakistan? The answer is that it can be done (as NIKE has found
out). But it does rely on a great deal of oversight, monitoring and incentive for suppliers to give up child labor practices. To understand this further, lets examine child labor
practices in India and Pakistan, and how they impact the textile, carpet and apparel industries. Teach the Children Well India and Pakistan
are two separate countries (their citizens are insistent that they are totally different, despite the fact that under Ottoman rule, they were one country). But these two different countries share
a trend toward child labor and businesses that turn a blind eye to it. Child labor is frequently used in the fields - its common for entire families to gather
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