Lesson Plan September 23, 2016
Child Labor
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What is the biggest issue/challenge in regards to child labor?
What are ways to improve the conditions of children experiencing child labor, and what are the steps needed to resolve this issue?
How does business and global trade impact child labor?
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Child labor and human rights abuses
- Define child labor in an international sense (where it happens often, some stats) and pick some examples of child labour cases.
"The only tripartite U.N. agency, since 1919 that brings together governments, employers and workers representatives of 187 member States , to set labour standards, develop policies and devise programmes promoting decent work for all women and men."
- Define child labor in an international sense (where it happens often, some stats) and pick some examples of child labour cases.
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Policy and child labor
- Talk about international labour agreements, and which countries are involved, and which countries aren't
- Talk about the International Labour Organization
"Bonded labor, also known as debt bondage and peonage, happens when people give themselves into slavery as security against a loan or when they inherit a debt from a relative"
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Bonded labor
- Relate to U.S. history on slavery, and the opressions of people in context to the international level
- Emphasize that bonded labor is still prevalent in today's society
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US-specific child labor violations
- Emphasize, give examples and explain how the U.S. isn't free of child labor (I would say that this is the main driver of the presentation... we can't only focus on other countries without realizing the existence of child labor within our own boarders)
- Not in the open/hidden as opposed to other countries
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Useful links:
In the Oxford Dictionary, child labor is deemed as the employment of children in an industry or business, especially when illegal or considered exploitative. This is considered a huge humanitarian issue, as children are taken advantaged of for the economic gain of others. Socio-economic circumstance is usually the main cause of children's participation in the work place, and this needs to be discussed in order to develop a deeper understanding of the intersectionality between poverty and child labor.
