CHILD LABOUR IN INDUSTRIES

CHILD LABOUR IN INDUSTRIES

It also made teeth rot and even caused workers to die from breathing it into their lungs. After all the dangers, they are not given any protection against these deadly diseases. Not even gloves! The rate of child labour in matchstick making was very high during the industrial revolution. It is said that the child employees were mostly girls.

A majority of these children were working in the unorganised sector, where small sheds and hazardous working conditions are still prevalent. The bigger businesses do not employ children, and their resources and safety measures are also better than those existing in the small factories

According to the government of India, all work done by children under the age of 14, and all hazardous work done by children under the age of 18 is illegal. And sadly, there is an estimated 168 to 200 million child labourers working around the world today.

CHILD LABOUR IN A TEXTILE INDUSTRY

Children are being put to work at all stages of the supply chain – from the production of cotton seed, cotton harvesting and yarn spinning mills to all the phases in the cut-make-trim stage. As well as working in fields, children are also working - though less frequently - in large formal factories and in small informal factories.

Young children work in the high tech spinning mills and in the power and hand loom industry. In garment factories, children perform diverse and often arduous tasks such as dyeing, sewing buttons, cutting and trimming threads, folding, moving and packing garments.

Child labour in carpet industries

WHAT IS CHILD LABOUR???

Child Labour in Matchstick Industry

Child labour is crime that is forbidden by law in almost all the countries. It’s generally considered unacceptable for a child to work long hours or to perform tedious, dangerous, heavy or dirty tasks.

Although carpet manufacturers deny that child labor exists in the carpet weaving industry, it very much does. Northern India, is the one of the main offender of using child slave labor in their production of carpets. Over the past 20 years, it has been one of the fastest growing industries. This has been achieved through the use of child labor. As the number of children working in the carpet industry grows, the profits grow. There are 300,000 children working in the carpet industry in India.

Matchstick industries is one of the main sectors with child labour. Children are forced to work with chemicals like phosphorus used to coat the matchstick. They work from 6:00 in the morning to 10:00 at night only dipping matches into the deadly chemical. This chemical caused yellowing of the teeth, hair loss, and phossy jaw, a type of bone cancer which leads to death.

Why are children forced to work??

child labour in the carpet industry

CHILD LABOUR IN FIRECRACKERS INDUSTRY

Children enter the industry in a variety of ways, including working alongside family members in family workshops, being sent by their families to other areas to work in industries and being trafficked. Many children are sent by their families to work in the numerous industry usually due to their poverty.

Child labourers have historically been a part of the fireworks industry in India, especially Sivakasi. It was way back in 1989 that a reporter named Shubh Bharadwaj had reported about the fireworks industry employing children as workers.

These children are sent to work at a very young age so they are deprived of a proper education, which only adds to their family cycle of poverty. Forty-two percent of the child workers have never attended school and 58 percent dropped out to continue their work in industries.

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