Monday, March 24, 2008
Child labor present in schools in China?
In my last blog, I was so fascinated at my research findings that the lack of education played a major role in deciding why Chinese children started to work at a young age that I decided to investigate the relations of schools and child labor. I came across an article titled “China: End Child Labor in State Schools” by the Human Rights Watch organization, that was about how some schools in China, both middle and junior high schools, were violating child labors laws because of the “work and study” program issued. As a result, the program was affecting thousands of children because it was interfering with the student’s education and placing some students in dangerous health conditions. The students worked long hours only to do work that would put their health in jeopardy. According to the Christian Science Monitor, in 1987 three million former Chinese students became apart of the other 37 million former Chinese students in dropping out of school in order to do work. This report shows how schools played a role in deciding whether a young person will become a worker at an early age or not. After reading these reports, I really started to understand one of my main concerns in my cross-cultural encounter with
Bureau of International Labor Affairs March 2008 Laws of China: Education laws. Electronic document, http://www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/sweat/china.htm accessed March 16, 2008
Human Rights Watch 2006
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