Child Labor Products
Mainly Focused in China
In the world we live in today, there are several products that are made by children in factories that might be working 10 or more hours a day. These kids start to work from as young as 5 to 17.
List of Products
All made through child labor
- Electronics
- Fish processing
- Coal and bricks
- Apparel and clothing accessories
- Sugarcane processing
- Carpets
- Diamonds and gold
- Cocoa powder
- Soap
- Christmas decorations
- Toys
- Eyeshadow
- Fireworks
- Cotton
More Info on Electronics, Clothing, and Cocoa Powder
Electronics
Apple and Samsung
Ages 13-15
Choice is between factories and school
Student “apprenticeships”
Long hours with very little pay
Clothing
Cotton:
Children collect cotton in fields
40,000 to 1 million students are used for the annual harvest
Starting at 8 years young
Barely paid
Money goes toward meals, transportation, and payments to the school
Fined for not collecting a certain amount of cotton
Must work right in order to move to the next grade
Zara and Nike
Cocoa
Mars, Nestle, and Hershey's
Toys
Ages 13-16
Guangdong, China
Sent through “work-study programs”
Long hours under the threat of financial penalty and being fined for any mistakes according to the Department of Labor
Withhold wages for months sometimes to assure that children will not leave
Coal and Bricks
Kids are used to carry heavy weights
Ages 8-17 are forced to produce bricks
Without pay and under the threat of physical violence
Children are used in coal mines for their size and less pay
Eyeshadow
Work in mines to collect Mica for the makeup
Mica: makes it shiny
