{"id":3197,"date":"2012-03-24T12:00:38","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T16:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=3197"},"modified":"2012-12-29T06:04:13","modified_gmt":"2012-12-29T11:04:13","slug":"should-we-actually-be-encouraging-child-labour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/should-we-actually-be-encouraging-child-labour\/","title":{"rendered":"Should we actually be Encouraging Child Labour?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/031812_0228_Shouldweact1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In an article in <em>The New York Times <\/em>and in a follow-up post on the Economix blog, Eduardo Porter showed why opposing child labour might be counter-productive. Highlights of his argument include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The best cure to poverty is economic development. By opposing child labour in your products, activists are saying that they value the satisfaction they get from being &#8216;moral&#8217; more than the suffering this causes by removing from poor the chance to escape poverty.<\/li>\n<li>Countries that have received the most multi-national investment have reduced poverty and child-labour the most. China which has attracted a lot of foreign investment has decreased its poverty rate by more than 17%. Bangladesh which has been ignored by foreigners has not seen its poverty rate change.<\/li>\n<li>Even if companies convince their third-world subcontractors to improve working conditions, the costs are usually borne by the subcontractors themselves \u2013 forcing them to decrease already thin margins.<\/li>\n<li>Most children don&#8217;t work in manufacturing anyway. They work in dangerous industries such as carpet making. If they&#8217;re kicked out of factories then they have no choice but to work in places that are potentially deadly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read more specific statistics behind the argument, and why trying to get Apple to change its labour practices might not be a bad idea after all, check out the source links.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/03\/07\/business\/dividends-emerge-in-pressing-apple-over-working-conditions-in-china.html?_r=1\"><em>New York Times<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/economix.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/03\/08\/are-western-activists-really-reducing-child-labor\/\">Economix<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an article in The New York Times and in a follow-up post on the Economix blog, Eduardo Porter showed why opposing child labour might be counter-productive. Highlights of his argument include: The best cure to poverty is economic development. By opposing child labour in your products, activists are saying that they value the satisfaction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin","category-signature"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/031812_0228_Shouldweact1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3197"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7485,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3197\/revisions\/7485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}