Child labour does not only happen in India, but it is a human rights issue that affects many places in the world. In India, many children under the age of fourteen are employed in carpet making factories, glass blowing units and making fireworks with their bare little hands.
Seema, who is only nine years old, works in the fields of a cotton seed farm. Every day, she has to get up early to get to work. To make a decent profit, the farmers attract cheap labourers. That means they have to employ kids like Seema. Every year, more than 400 thousand labourers under age are being forced to work in cotton seed farms across India. They need to provide a small income for their starving families that live on the edge of absolute poverty.
In Northern India, situations like this are common. The exploitation of little children for labor is generally accepted to make poverty easier to be endured. Carpet weaving industries pay very low wages to child labourers and force them to work in bad conditions.
These children are held back from getting proper education and will later on suffer the same conditions their parents are currently living in. It ends up in a vicious circle of everlasting poverty. As a reaction on Guillaume’s (Cornette, Ed.) article on child labour, I would like to state that organizations that ban child labour already have a label that represents their ethical code of conduct. I think this is the only solution to make a distinction between the companies that strive for corporate governance and the ones that violate the ethical way of entrepreneurial activity.
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Mathias Aper
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