Question

Which of the following is true? Select one: è a. Agriculture is the main industry that uses child labor. o b. If child labor were stopped, families would have greater economic success. c. Child labor is most common in urban areas. d. Child labor is most common in the tovtile industry

Answer 1

Answer: (a) Agriculture is the main industry that uses child labor.

The agricultural sector represents by far the biggest portion of child labour. The area represents 71 percent of all those in child labour and for 108 million kids in outright terms.

Child labour in agriculture relates essentially to subsistence and commercial farming and livestock herding. It is frequently unsafe in its nature and in the conditions where it is completed. Children in child labour in the services and industry segments number 26 million and 18 million.

Child agricultural workers regularly work for extended periods in burning warmth, pull overwhelming heaps of produce, are presented to harmful pesticides, and experience the ill effects of sharp blades and different perilous apparatuses. Their work is overwhelming and brutal and abuses their privileges to wellbeing, education, and assurance from work that is dangerous or exploitative.

As per the International Labor Organization's new report on child labour, the quantity of kids working in agriculture is almost multiple times that of kids engaged with industrial facility work, for example, garment manufacturing, carpet-weaving, or soccer-ball stitching.

.PRAGMATIC EXAMPLES/CASE STUDY

• As indicated by the International Labor Organization (ILO), agribusiness is the place the most exceedingly awful and most regular types of child labour are found. Espresso ranches utilize kids to pick beans in Colombia, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Mexico, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Panama, El Salvador, Guinea, and Ivory Coast.
• Cotton-picking is finished by kids everywhere throughout the world, yet especially in nations whose economies depend vigorously on its reap - like in Ivory Coast, where it gives occupation to 3 million individuals. As indicated by the NGO Cotton Campaign, it is additionally a significant issue in Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, where kids are once in a while compelled to work in the cotton division.
• Egypt's significant cash crop, where more than one million kids work every year to physically expel pests from cotton plants.
• In Ecuador, where about 600,000 youngsters work in the country area, the association explored conditions for kids working in banana fields and pressing plants.
• In the United States, Human Rights Watch inspected conditions for the assessed 300,000 kids who fill in as procured workers in enormous scope business farming, planting, weeding, and picking apples, cotton, melon, lettuce, asparagus, watermelons, chilies, and different yields.
• In India, Human Rights Watch took a gander at bonded kid workers working in agribusiness as a component of a bigger investigation of fortified youngster work. There are upwards of 15 million bonded child laborers in India, the greater part of whom are Dalits (untouchables) or lower station.