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gzusbmine
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Prevent Child Labour: Boycott Walmart
August 19, 2007 - 06:07 PM
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I think the greatest way to prevent Child Labour is boycott Walmart. It is the largest company in the world with over $245 billion dollars in sales.
To get the lowest price possible they have pushed companies to do the unethical and immoral by forcing them to go to countries with the lowest wages which usually means child labour.
While it is so hard not to by products that are made by children, we can show the largest company how we really feel about child labour by taking our business elsewhere. Walmart is the largest importer of Chinese goods at 10 percent. They also buy from other countries that use child labor.
Don't give power to walmart by giving them your money. Boycott Walmart!
Great articles on the devastation that Walmart is wreaking on the world today are as follows.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/walmart/secrets/wmchina.html
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/77/walmart.html
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Re: Prevent Child Labour: Boycott Walmart
August 20, 2007 - 04:41 AM
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You are most welcome to give ur wisdom and the arms to the Children. In India the Child labour is going on with force in Agri field. But at this time we need to educate them to read and to write . Then they will have the good opportunities to grow as they are. We have had the plans Oprhanhomes to start. Can u offer ur hands and the offerings for the Children sake.
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Re: Prevent Child Labour: Boycott Walmart
August 20, 2007 - 08:53 AM
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There is no way we can prevent child labour unless we eradicate poverty. There are millions of children around the globe that are force to work due to poverty. If they do not work they will die. Is the world ready to adopt these poor children, feed them and send them to school? I don't think so. In this case, we have to solve the poverty issue first before we jump to the branches. Child labor is mainly a consequence of poverty. Without poverty all the children will be in places where they are supposed to be, school and home. I take for example myself, I came from a poor family and at the age of 6 I had to work to support my studying and family until I finished university. Now I am working in a huge bank and been here for more than a decade. If child labour law has caused me to stop working that time, I would have not finished my studies and would have died with empty stomach. Child labor is not bad at all depends on the intention. If it worked for me and others, I am sure it will work to many more children.
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Re: Prevent Child Labour: Boycott Walmart
August 20, 2007 - 02:42 PM
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I understand your point, DotMatrix. It is one that I have struggled with. The problem with Child labour is that children are being taken advantage of first. If we eliminated Child labour then companies might be forced to pay a good standard wage to adults so that children could go to school and have better opportunities.
You have to elimate child labour to force companies to pay the right wages that will support the living a family.
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Re: Prevent Child Labour: Boycott Walmart
November 19, 2007 - 05:24 AM
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The best practice for GAP, Wal*Mart, Ikea or other textile importers would be to establish own production units with dyeing, stitching machines, finishing and packing in rural village. Over 70% of tailors and garment workers migrate to urban cities to work for sub-contractors of garment or home furnishing exporters. Majority of them are either illiterate or semi-literate so don’t know what child labor issue is? For them the issue is survival in expensive urban cities raising money for future life in their own village. Most important factor is that job is unstable so can not settle down at one place; move from one unit to another to get better wage as they are on wage per piece produced and wage decided by demand and supply. Under such circumstances, giving education in schools to children is not easy. For them education to their children is learning survival skill that children learn through child labor . For them child not only learns practical skill rather also earns for home. They find their children future more secured than the unemployed graduate in developing world. So they seek help of their children to contribute towards home.
http://www.sadashivan.com/factsandfigures/id3.html
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Staci Kentish
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Re: Prevent Child Labour: Boycott Walmart
January 3, 2008 - 12:00 AM
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It is no doubt a complicated issue that needs education on all sides.
People need to be willing to give up the luxury of cheap, readily available goods to stop demand.
Globalization needs to be brought to the forefront and treated like a real issue instead of bandaid solutions that make western citizens feel a little better without actually doing anything.
And I agree, poverty and inequility is at the root of this debate - it's all one big economic balancing.
The trick is to do something, anything to get governments, corporations, international organizations, average citizens moving on this issue in a real and productive way.
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