Effects on Youth and Rhetoric Labor The young population make up the majority of the workforce. Young people bring fresh perspectives to the workplace and are willing to learn and build their skills in the market. They have tremendous enthusiasm, morale, and high productivity. In the years of youth transitioning into the workplace they are able to adapt faster to their environment and absorb training better due to their active minds as many are fresh minds from school. Integrating the youth into the workplace has also served as a source of cheap labor as the wages of a young person are always less expensive as compared to those who are older with more work experience. For these reasons, youth …show more content…
This, therefore, makes it an issue of significance as children represent a vulnerable group within the community that has to be protected. Background information Throughout history, children have been exploited for labor. Back in the 1800s, children supported the economic and industrial growth of the time. Young children, even those who were 14 years old, worked in factories, mining, and as street vendors. Low-income families send their children to work to supplement their income. With the increase in education and the formation of labor laws, child labor decreased. However, with the rise in agricultural activities, child labor played a vital role as the primary source of labor for plantations and factories. Statistics by the International Labor Organization (ILO) in 2002 showed that there were 211 million child laborers across the globe (Radfar et al. 1). The adage of the adage. 73 million of them were under the age of 10, while 8 million were used for domestic work, trafficking, and slavery (Radfar et al. 1). The adage of the adage. United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), an international body dedicated to the rights of children, shared statistics of 160 million children by …show more content…
Economic sanctions further plunge the country into woes and increase poverty among people. The same applies to boycotting products, which leads to layoffs but does not directly deal with the issue of child labor. This further leads to low-income families relying on child labor as a source of income. Unifying international labor standards (IS) can be used in place of trade sanctions and boycotts. However, the effectiveness of this method can be weaker as a solution. This is because, in developing countries, IS policies that burn child labor would directly influence manufacturing companies that operate under labor laws. However, the domestic sector remains unsupervised, and this would lead to more children in such areas of agriculture and household support (Doepke & Zilibotti 3). Ideally, this would not provide a concrete plan for child labor eradication. Counterargument Perhaps the primary consideration for child labor in developing countries would be due to the high poverty levels and the high levels of unemployment. Many youths, even those who pursue degrees to a greater extent, are left unemployed. Within the right conditions, child labor can help develop harnessing skills in different industries. Many jobs call for