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the fact that children of the world are generally without rights and only have a voice when an adult speaks for them. What is all too often lost in the discussion of human rights, crimes against humanity, and the ever-increasing globalization of business and industry throughout the world are concerns, even acknowledgement of, the simple fact that children also have rights. Those rights are undeniably relevant in terms of how the processes of globalization are changing virtually every aspect of the 21st century world. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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as workers, prostitutes, slaves, and nobody truly knows what else. Children of the world are generally without rights and only have a voice when an adult speaks for them. What
is all too often lost in the discussion of human rights, crimes against humanity, and the ever-increasing globalization of business and industry throughout the world are concerns, even acknowledgment of,
the simple fact that children also have rights. Those rights are undeniably relevant in terms of how the processes of globalization are changing virtually every aspect of the 21st century
world. Globalization and Exploitation While Americans worry about the educational and financial futures of their children, families in India, Bangladesh, Mexico, Thailand, and other less developed nations worry about their
child 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. According to Clifford (1994), 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 (pp. 60). Bachman (1997) explains that 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. In fact, again according to Bachman, very young Mexicans are also "gluing shoes in workshops in
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