China: Child labour debate

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007 @ 09:19 UTC

by Oiwan Lam

Countries:
China
Topics:
Children, Labor

Si tai from 1510 commented on the recent scandal of child labour in factories that produced Olympic soveniors (zh). The writer told his experience in encountering with teenage workers and s/he wonders if a simple ban of child labour would solve their problems or we should improve their working conditions instead.

In the comment section, some responses pointed out that even if they were back to rural area, they had to cultivate the land, which would be much harder than factory work…(zh)

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