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A 10 page overview of child labor practices in Asia. Statistics reveal not only a heavy reliance on child labor, the highest in the world in fact in terms of the actual number of children employed, but also an encouragement of such factors by a western market for mass produced goods. Focusing primarily on China, the author examines the practice of child labor from the standpoint of human rights in general and how economic and historical factors have impacted these rights. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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Asia has a long history of utilizing the labor of children to fuel its factories and other industries. The region is not unique, by any
means, in this regard, however. Indeed, child labor has been an aspect of human society since the beginning of mans reign on earth. As soon as a child
was able to perform even the most menial of chores he or she was assigned that responsibility in many cultures. This was a necessary component of surviving in a
sometimes harsh and inhospitable environment. Everyone, even the very young and the very old in these cultures had to earn their keep. Industrialization, however, has had extremely deleterious
impacts on such practices in modern day Asia and other countries around the world. Instead of expecting children to bear a proportional load in terms of societal subsistence, today
much of the world is guilty of looking at their children as industrial workhorses. Palley (2002) estimates the number of working children ages five to fourteen around the world
at approximately 250 million. Asia holds the greatest percentage of these children, some 152.5 million (20 percent of the total Asian child population) as opposed to 80 million in
Africa (40 percent of the total African child population) and 17.5 million in Latin America (20 percent of the total Latin American child population), the two other contenders for world
records in regard to the work exploitation of children (Palley, 2002). Some 120 million of the working children worldwide are employed in hazardous work (Palley, 2002). The remainder
are employed in work as diverse as agriculture and toy and clothing manufacture. To gain a better understanding of the problems which are
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