child labour

Child labor industrial revolution began in the UK in the 1700s. With the development of power machines and new production methods, the industry has developed rapidly. By the mid-1800s, the industrial revolution spread in Western Europe. It started with this child labor. Child labor is the use of children as people of the working class. It became a serious social problem at the time of the British industrial revolution in the 1700s, and the problems spread to other countries as it was industrialized.

Certain cultural beliefs rationalized child labor and encouraged child labor in the history of Europe where child labor in modern society spread and modern child labor occurred. Some people believe that work will help children's character building and skill development. In places where many cultures, especially informal economies and small family operations are flourishing, cultural tradition is a way to obey their parents and child labor is a means to learn and practice this trade from a very young age is. Similarly, in many cultures girls have low educational value, girls do not need formal school education, and these girls are engaged in child labor, such as providing housekeeping services.

ILO's definition of child labor is "mental, physical, social, or morally dangerous and harmful to children" and interferes or deprives their research. The worst form of child labor is defined as exploitative or dangerous child labor including all slavery and trafficking. Currently, the industry which is essentially related to child labor in West Africa is cocoa. Since a series of exposures have been done for more than a decade ago, the chocolate industry is working on eradicating child labor in West African farms, causing significant damage to reputation and ultimately a series of litigation for chocolate consumers It led to.

More Child Labor Duran Report 2015 announced the horror of the worst forms of child labor in cocoa production. Despite efforts of more than 10 years, the number of child laborers remains high, although child labor has declined slightly, the increase in cocoa production increases only West African child labor to 2.1 million children It was. Therefore, thinking about child labor in the cocoa supply chain has changed over the last few years. Random audit of what forms of child labor and zero tolerance policy to paper seems to have the opposite effect of hiding child labor, but it is also spreading as well. It is necessary to deal with fundamental causes such as poverty of farmers, lack of access to good schools, lack of infrastructure in the area, lack of consciousness