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This 11 page report discusses the exploitation of children around the world, especially in Third World nations, as a source of cheap and compliant labor. Governments, businesses, and individual consumers have an obligation to do what they can to bring a halt to the exploitation of children throughout the world. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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being able to continue working as the familys primary breadwinner. American children want the newest pair of $100 (or more) Nike athletic shoes to be cool. Child
factory workers in southeast Asia spend months sewing, cutting, and gluing those shoes to earn $100. The all-consuming need to consume by the wealthiest nations of the continues to
turn the children of Third World nations into virtual slave labor in order to produce more goods at a cheaper price to be sold for the greatest amount of profit
in the "First" world. In Pakistan, girls as young as ten years old work in the factory of an American clothing manufacturer. Levi Strauss
faced international pressures over its child laborers in Bangladesh (Clifford 60). In Mexico the legal working age is 14 but it is extremely common to see children much younger
than 14 working the fruit and vegetable fields throughout the country (Bachman 41). In fact, very young Mexicans are also gluing shoes in workshops in Guanajuato State, stacking bricks in
Durango, and lifting two or three times their body weight in produce at Mexico Citys central market. There are even children who clean up the extremely toxic oil residues in
Tabasco State and are considered by UNICEF to be in the worst of all the terrible circumstances (Bachman 41). In Brazil, an estimated
3 million children labor on tea, sugar-cane, tobacco and sisal plantations and account for more than 40 percent of work-related accidents. In Haiti, 7-year-old housemaids fetch water, cook meals and
look after the children of their employers. In upstate New York, a 1990 study found Mexican American children working in farm fields still wet with pesticides. Worldwide, private aid
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