Basically, socio-economic and cultural disparities are a significant determinant of the defined nature of CL (Blanchett and Shealey, 2013) [1], being responsible for the. This repository has been built using EPrints software. WebAlthough child labor has been the norm throughout history, the fact of children working and the difficult conditions under which children work occasionally become more evident. [53] Siegfried, P. (2011): Die Bedeutung des Ethischen fr den konomischen Prozess, AVM Akademische Verlagsgemeinschaft, p 100. More than 3,800 children were found to be working at U.S. companies last year in violation of federal law, the Labor Department said Monday in announcing a Employers are responsible for ensuring a safe workplace that complies with child labor laws, Looman says. WebAccording to Utilitarianism, the right action or policy is the one that will produce the greatest net benefits or the lowest net costs. Nobody knows exactly why the numbers started to climb in 2015, but probably it was because the labor market was getting tight. [36] Maki, R. (2017). The U.S. generally has good child labor laws, except for agriculture, says Reid Maki, director of child labor advocacy for the National Consumers League and coordinator of the Child Labor Coalition, which works to end abusive child labor. The penalties for violating these laws are smallfor employing child labor, you pay all of. Kants kategorischer Imperativ als Kriterium des Sittlichen. [25] Hart, O. and Zingales, L. (2017). An introduction to the principles of morals and legislation. Legislating the Moral Law. Findings: The investigation of child labour in terms of ethics yields conflicting results. [16] Donaldson, T. and Dunfee, T.W. April 2013, Vol. Somebodys got to be the fall guy, and its not such a bad fate. What? Crime, social class and ambition are recurring themes in Dickens's novels. The Biden administration on Monday announced a wide crackdown on the labor exploitation of migrant children around the United States, Correspondingly, Figure 1 encapsulates a general outline of global CL facts. In 2022, efforts to expand teens' working hours passed in New Jersey but weren't signed into law in two other states. (2014). Stakeholder in a Utilitarianism Context. As far as I am concerned, the financial condition of the nation is corrupt. Purpose: Grounded in the theoretical concepts of utilitarianism and deontology, this paper aims to evaluate the issue of child labour from an ethics Kant would indeed support this Western sentiment, since the worst forms of CL inherently violate the childs autonomy (Radfar et al., 2018) [11]. Suggested Citation, Mrfelder Landstrae 55Frankfurt am Main, 60598Germany+4915779068623 (Phone), Economic Perspectives on Employment & Labor Law eJournal, Subscribe to this fee journal for more curated articles on this topic, Labor: Public Policy & Regulation eJournal, Subscribe to this free journal for more curated articles on this topic, We use cookies to help provide and enhance our service and tailor content. A rights-based perspective might say that it is wrong to hire children to do difficult labour, such as working in a factory or in a cotton field. [24] Harari, R., Forastiere, F. and Axelson, O. Additionally, beating, humiliating and psychological assault of children is opposed to any humanitarian standpoint (Kreikebaum, 2006 [30]; Amnesty International, 2018 [31] ). ASM cannot simply be shut down, however. Until that happens, abuses will continue. Social Neuroscience, pp.17. The exploitative employment of children does not correspond to German ideas of a typical and appropriate childhood and is accordingly never considered desirable as a state to be aspired equally for all children. The surge in child labor reverses what had been, for most of the past 20 years, asignificant declinein the number of minors employed in violation of the FLSA. [58] Sprinkle, G. and Maines, L., (2010). The bad news is that they may have been made with child labor. (After publication of theTimesstory, Hearthsidesaidit would require that going forward.) Attempting to assign blame between these two is a fools errand. D Utilitarianism has been called a (n): a. commonsensical approach to ethics. Children were expected to help the family in the traditional economy, but usually they had been assigned tasks that were commensurate with their age. For example, in 2022, more than 100 kids across several McDonald's locations in Pennsylvania were illegally scheduled to work too many hours or too late at night. From a deontological perspective, child labour can never be ethical and should always be rejected as it is not wanted to become a general law. Sununu is weighing a presidential bid in 2024. As theTimesnotes, the federal government knows these children are here and entrusts them to the Department of Health and Human Services to connect them to sponsoring families. (1998). "We walk a lot. New York: Oxford University Press. Available at: https://www.unicef.org/protection/files/Child_Labour_and_UNICEF_in_Action.pdf. Others who think that utilitarian reasons matter, but are incomplete, would say that there is a good reason in favour ofoption A, but that other considerations (such as human rights) matter too and might sway our overall ethical judgement on the matter. Webtarian sentiment, child labour is ethically justifiable as long as the beneficiaries of the labour are greater in number than the children working or suffering. A more detailed outline of both ethical. The Iowa bill would also let some youth under 16 drive themselves to work and extend the hours teenagers could work. The Journal of Legal Studies, 8(1), pp.103140. Historically, utilitarian philosophers played an important role in many struggles that are today recognized as ethically significant. In-ternational Journal of Child Care and Education Policy, 13(1), p.5. [online]. These now include child labor, a problem everybody thought wed licked a century ago. Yet, the ethical dilemma of CL is revealed by the perspective of corresponding stakeholders in the light of the universalism theory (Meiklejohn, 1998) [12], providing rationale favouring CL in contrast (Hindman and Smith, 1999 [13]; Radfar et al., 2018 [11] ). Utilitarianism, on the other hand, does not provide a general assessment as being largely dependent on the comparative value or level of comparison (e.g. The benefits and costs of corporate social re-sponsibility. "There's no safe part of a loading dock," Maki says. A hard-core utilitarian would say that outcomes areall that matter. Health hazards to children in agriculture. The penalties for violating these laws are smallfor employing child labor, you pay all of$15,138 per childand the reputational damage is minimal for a subcontractor or franchisee of whom nobodys ever heard. Press. Despite the suffering inflicted on many children by labour, some voices favour CL by referring their moral justification to the impoverished conditions from which it originates (Lund-Thomsen, 2008 [16]; Radfar et al., 2018 [11] ). The Labor Departments wage and hour division recorded a37 percent increasein 2022 in the number of minors employed in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act, whichoutlawedmost child labor way back in 1938 and imposed strict limits on the rest. Its no longer just a Third World practice, or a bad memory fromHow the Other Half Lives. [online]. The Biden administration. [13] Cheng, B., Ioannou, I. and Serafeim, G. (2014). (Frito-Lay declined comment to the, that it had begun an investigation of Hearthside and that it will explore using the hot goods doctrine of interstate commerce to try to assign responsibility higher up the supply chain. House Republicans will have a field day with thisnever mind that many of them likely support, with Sununu, loosening child-labor restrictions at the state level. Utilitarianism says in particular that the right action in any situation is the one that will produce the best outcomes, as measured by impact on everyone involved. It is also often considered as the employment of children who are below a specific legal age (Schrumpf 2004).
Attempting to assign blame between these two is a fools errand. To be the main factors contributing to CL, predominantly present in developing countries. International Journal of Management Reviews, 12(1), pp.85105. Geneva: International Labour Office. As CL being widely prohibited and morally condemned in Western economies (Pierik, 2007) [9], such violations are occurring almost invariably at the lower end of VCs in developing countries (ILO, 2017a) [10]. NBC News previously reported that 102 children as young as 13 were found to be working hazardous overnight jobs cleaning slaughterhouses in what the Labor Department called a "corporate-wide failure" by one of the largest food sanitation companies in the country, Packers Sanitation Services Inc. Potential effects of CL on stakeholder groups, own table. In several sporting disciplines, but especially in football, the red card sanctions faults which are liable to exclusion from the field. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. THIS IS WHAT WE DIE FOR - HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES IN THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICOF THE CONGO POWER THE GLOBAL TRADE IN COBALT. The Review of Metaphysics, 52(2), pp.267294. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. [4] Amnesty International (2018). And when we look at the increase in child labor violations, we have to ask ourselves the question, how are we letting this happen in 2022, 2023?". But Frito-Lay and General Mills couldnt do it without Hearthside, the countrys largest contract manufacturer. The subject has been blurred by the source. Webstart-ups offshore their technical work to lower wage labor markets abroad before they invest in the company. (2018). [57] SOMO, ALR and LRDP (2017). Available at: https://www.theworldcounts.com/challenges [Accessed April 28, 2020]. The unemployment rate has since fallen further to, The violations began piling up just as Republican state legislators, many of them newly in the majority, went on the attack against child labor restrictions, pressing in various ways to expand the number of work hours and work settings available to teenagers aged 14 to 17. Global challenges. [2] Amnesty International (2016). . Fighting child labor abroad: conceptual problems and practical solutions. (2021): [66] Van Staveren, I. Only a few of these Dickensian pro-child-labor bills got enacted, but some did. By linking utilitarianism with normative stakeholder theory, relevant stakeholder groups are being identified in order to examine their influence on and role in the occurrence of child labour allowing for a practical reference. Population, worldwide | Data. Minors as young as 12 can work long hours, and agriculture's hazardous-occupation orders aren't as strict as in nonagricultural industries. Academy of Management Review, 26(1), pp.117127. J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J1 - Demographic Economics, M - Business Administration and Business Economics ; Marketing ; Accounting ; Personnel Economics > M1 - Business Administration, M - Business Administration and Business Economics ; Marketing ; Accounting ; Personnel Economics > M1 - Business Administration > M14 - Corporate Culture ; Diversity ; Social Responsibility, https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/id/eprint/111403, Child Labour Ethics through the Prism of Utilitarianism and Deontology, Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility. The Biden administrationresponded Mondayto theTimesstory with appropriate fury, creating an interagency task force and pledging better supervision by HHS, but the Democratic-controlled Senate will have to pitch in too, with a more sober investigation than anything we can expect on the House side. [18] Donaubauer, J. and Dreger, C. (2018). [67] Vogel, D.J. [63] UNCRC (1989). 1:10. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. It strives to achieve the greatest good for the greatest number while creating the least amount of harm or preventing the greatest amount of suffering. Child Labour, Deontology, Utilitarianism, Ethics, There can be no keener revelation of a societys soul than the way in which it treats its children [emphasis added]. Nelson Mandela. Development and Change, 39(6), pp.10051018. Working 10 hours every day, a 14 year old child worker from Foshan dies from exhaustion. [online]. [71] Wiredu, K. (2008). WebFrom a deontological perspective, child labour can never be ethical and should always be rejected as it is not wanted to become a general law. Zeitschrift fr philosophische Forschung, 31(3), pp.354384. Only a few of these Dickensian pro-child-labor bills got enacted, but some did. (2007). Multiple Voices for Ethnically Diverse Exceptional Learners. [62] UN (2019). 87. : The Business Case for Corporate Social Responsibility. Child labor violations have been on the rise since 2015 after declining for years, according to data from the U.S. Consider the question of child labour. Available at: http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/0198235119.001.0001/acprof-9780198235118 [Accessed May 4, 2020]. [9] Carroll, A.B. Beyond that, as being aware of the terrible working conditions their children are exposed to, parents are most likely plagued by accusations and pity (Pierik, 2007) [9]. The author endeavours to open up the subject of CL for executives by linking normative stakeholder theory and utilitarianism. Journal of Business Ethics, 19(1), pp.2133. The utilitarian perspective is perhaps best understood when examined in contrast to rights-based perspectives. (After publication of the, it would require that going forward.) Kant-Studien, 67(14). [69] Weiss, J. (Just kidding.). Over the previous decade, the number of minors employed in violation of the act was up 140 percent. Kaitlyn Radde. While deontology is concerned with the intrinsic nature of a specific matter whether or not wanted to be a general state, utilitarianism, independent of a matters nature, is concerned with the weighing of utility and expense. Toward a More Coherent Understanding of the OrganizationSociety Relationship: A Theoretical Consideration for Social and Environmental Accounting Research. (First published in 1863). But Frito-Lay and General Mills couldnt do it without Hearthside, the countrys largest contract manufacturer. In compliance with Kant, companies should only tolerate CL in their GVC if they want it to become a general law. This month, Packers Sanitation Services paid a $1.5 million fine for employing 102 children to work in dangerous meatpacking facility jobs across eight states. WebAbstract. PSSI is not a target of that investigation and has not been accused of wrongdoing by DHS. Review of Political Economy, 19(1), pp.2135. Since 2018, there has been a 69 percent increase in the number of children employed in violation of labor laws, officials said. The more common, and more invisible, problem is that through subcontracting and franchising, large corporations have made the enforcement of labor protections for frontline, low-wage workers other peoples problem. Corporate Social Responsibility: a Theory of the Firm Perspective. Journal of Business Ethics, 97(4), pp.651665. Hart.) Some 835 companies were founded to be illegally employing minors last year, the Labor Department said, and more than 600 child labor investigations remain ongoing. The findings might serve companies as decision basis for their VC creation. Utilitarianism1 takes the view that an action is ethically justifiable if the output is greater than the pain for all concerned (Posner, 1979) [36]. Three former employees at the staffing agency, Forge Industrial Staffing, told Dreier that they shared suspicions about the age of some workers with Hearthside. WebDetailed Commitments on Child Labour in Agricultural Supply Chains Nestl is committed to proactive action to tackle child labour and is specifically targeting higher risk commodities and countries for interventions 1. In Zalta, E. N. (editor) The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. (Edited by R. You have hands, make use of them! Child labour in Artisanal and Small-scale Mining in Tanzania: You Have Hands, Make use of Them! Journal of International Development, 28(7), pp.10131028. Immigration raids in the early 2000s inadvertently revealed the children of migrant workers employed in meatpacking plants, and advocates like Maki have been concerned about child labor in those facilities ever since. What? In 2015 the low point in the data the Wage and Hour Division found 1,012 minors employed in violation of child labor laws, with an average of 1.9 per case. Business & Society, 53(1), pp.71104. The more common, and more invisible, problem is that through subcontracting and franchising, large corporations have made the enforcement of labor protections for frontline, low-wage workers other peoples problem. If they are voluntarily willing to work for the benefit of the family, this would be ethically acceptable according to Kant (Kreikebaum, 2006) [30]. Subway, Burger King and Popeyes restaurants in South Carolina were fined for similar violations in 2022. [online]. However, although these overarching standards have been ratified by a number of economies, in particularly developing countries, lacking national legal prohibitions on child labour. Also, poor children deprived of the moral rights. [5] Ballet, J., Bhukuth, A. and Carimentrand, A. Alas, this corresponds to ILO (2017) [3] estimates about the number of children engaged in CL worldwide of which 73 million are exposed to hazardous working conditions (UN, 2019) [4]. An empirical investigation through e.g. [10] Chakraborty, K. and Chakraborty, B. Lastly, many developing economies or governments are unable to compensate for the lack of cheap CL, as the wages for adult workers are considerably higher. Federal officials confirmed Monday that they are investigating Hearthside Food Solutions for possible child labor violations, which was the subject of a New York Timesarticleover the weekend. But he says that allowing children to work longer hours increases the risk they'll get into car accidents driving in the dark, exhausted and that the jobs these bills allow minors to take are dangerous. To learn more, visit
A recent driver of the surge is that desperately poor migrant children are pouring into the U.S. in record numbers. For instance, despite the rejection by the categorical imperative, CL offers benefits to some stakeholders (Marques, 2015) [25]. [50] Scheffler, S. (1994). Workers were getting hard to find. Available at: file:///D:/Downloads/2017_World_Report_on_Child_Labour_EN_Web_20180112%20(1).pdf. Available at: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL [Accessed April 28, 2020]. 0:01. 2 This of course includes slavery, prostitution, debt bondage and pornography or any other sectors or works that are Table 1 allows a preliminary overview of both concepts. Tersely said, the remainder of this essay is devoted to assessing the ethics of CL by, inter alia, identifying relevant stakeholders and the implications of CL on them. [64] UNICEF (2014). Three former employees at the staffing agency, Forge Industrial Staffing, told Dreier that they shared suspicions about the age of some workers with Hearthside. "We also are doing more investigations.". If option A will create more happiness (or less misery) overall than option B, then option A is ethically correct. Child Labour Ethics through the Prism of Utilitarianism and Deontology. American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 23(3), pp.185190. In H. Albach, ed. Over the past half-century, the economy has quietly reorganized itself to separate large, respectable corporations from low-wage worker bees. Utilitarianism and Personal Identity. 13, No. Nos, 28(4), pp.435464. The Myanmar Dilemma: Can the garment industry deliver decent jobs for workers in Myanmar? And Hearthside, in turn, relies in Grand Rapids, Michiganwhere 15-year-old Carolina Yoc, from Guatemala, works an assembly line stuffing bags of Cheerios into yellow boxeson a local staffing agency. and Smith, C.G. Crisp.) The World Bank Economic Review, 17(2), pp.147173. The ethical dimensions of global development. [35] LundThomsen, P. (2008). [70] Wilk, V.A. The integration of theoretical findings into a practical business context provides additional value for managers and global supply chain managers. Additionally, CL often times seems to be the best alternative under given circumstances. By linking utilitarianism with normative stakeholder theory, relevant stakeholder groups are being identified in order to examine their influence on and role in the occurrence of child labour allowing for a practical reference. Economics and Philosophy, 11(1), pp.85112. Only a few of these Dickensian pro-child-labor bills got enacted, but some did. Child labour: a textbook for university students. WebAbstract. [1] Abe, K. and Ogawa, H. (2017). 8, No. from: Bioethics; Principles, Issues, and Cases (2nd ed. (2010). David Weil, who was Labor Department wage and hour administrator under President Barack Obama and failed to win Senate confirmation to return to that job under President Joe Bidena verycostly defeatdiagnosed this phenomenon in his indispensable 2013 bookThe Fissured Workplace. Krummel, Daniel and Siegfried, Patrick But once theyre assigned to a family, HHS does a poor job keeping track. (1985). The bad news is that they may have been made with child labor. (Weiss, 2014) [23]. Kant, being considered one of the fathers of universalism (Marques, 2015) [25], holds the categorical imperative as the fundamental principle and moral law of ethical behaviour (Hffe, 1977) [26]. [60] The World Bank (2018). This involves technical farmer support and investments in community projects that will facilitate the reduction of child labour. The problem has grown worse as increasing numbers of children fleeing violence and poverty in Latin America have arrived in the U.S. without parents, officials said. Journal of Economics, 125(1), pp.6995. Effect of cropland and livestock ownership on child labour in eastern Ethiopia: empirical examination of the Wealth Paradox. Table 1 allows a preliminary overview of both concepts. [online]. WebUtilitarianism is a consequentialist moral theory that emphasizes efforts to maximize the overall good. 3. (2016). [12] Chen, J.C. and Roberts, R.W. Sununu is weighing a presidential bid in 2024. [online]. Accordingly, the lack of alternatives, such as education, and poverty of the family drives parents to send children to work (Pierik, 2007) [9]. (1995). Available at: https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view//9781626561427/?ar [Accessed April 29, 2020]. Accordingly, classical utilitarianism is a hedonistic concept which assumes that there are measurable amounts of joy and pain. The increase in unlawful child labor cases has come as the number of migrant minors entering U.S. border custody without their parents has reached record U.S. officials said the Labor Department had seen a nearly 70% increase in child labor violations since 2018, including in hazardous occupations. Globalization, child labour and adult unemploy-ment. Deontological ethics, also known as universalism, is a branch of ethical theories that determines the moral and status of an action not by its consequences, yet rather by principles such as justice, rights or fairness, and is therefore considered to contrast the consequentialist theory (Weiss, 2014) [23]. (Frito-Lay declined comment to theTimes.). Child labour may be measured as hazardous Stamford: Cengage Learning. In a tight labor market like the current one employers sometimes prefer to fill jobs with minors, who tend to be cheaper and more docile workers, Maki says. Zeitschrift fr Betriebswirtschaft Special issue. Beyond Utilitarianism and Deontology: Ethics in Eco-nomics. Somebodys got to be the fall guy, and its not such a bad fate. Daniel, K. and Patrick, S. (2021) Child Labour Ethics through the Prism of Utilitarianism and Deontology. More than 3,800 children were found to be working at U.S. companies last year in violation of federal law, the Labor Department said Monday in announcing a crackdown on child labor. Table 2. New York: Columbia Univ. [27] Hffe, O. Utilitarianism provides Business ethics: ethical decision making and cases. Surely youve heard of Frito-Lay, which makes Cheetos, and General Mills, which makes Lucky Charms and Nature Valley granola bars. Furthermore, shareholders are benefitting from CL in form of higher ROI since production is carried out at low wage costs, the expenditure is thus lower which in turn results in a higher yield (Manda et al., 2003 [45]; Sprinkle and Maines, 2010 [53] ). [72] Yovel, Y. The Journal of Val-ue Inquiry, 33(2), pp.183199. The division is finding more minors per case, and it's not clear why. Lan-ham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, pp. Webchild labour (with exceptions to agricultural sector). The Global Child Labor Problem: What Do We Know and What Can We Do? Table 1 allows a preliminary overview of both concepts. This work is based on the application of two ethical theories, deontology and utilitarianism theory, to evaluate CL from an ethics perspective. Originality/Value: The examination of child labour from the perspective of deontology and utilitarianism in conjunction with normative stakeholder theory constitutes a novelty in the ethics literature. 1-3. [online]. "We're doing more outreach and education," which helps people recognize violations, says Jessica Looman, principal deputy administrator of the Wage and Hour Division. Some of the children working to clean slaughterhouses in the Midwestwho wereemployed bythe companyare unaccompanied minor children from Guatemala who came across the Southern border, according to advocates and lawyers. Large corporations have made the enforcement of labor protections for frontline, low-wage workers other peoples problem. The unemployment rate, which had been falling since 2010, in 2015 to 5 percent, which was then considered full employment. Part of the division's focus is on prevention educating teens about their rights and employers about their responsibilities and strategies to ensure compliance. [3] Amnesty International (2017). Nonetheless, not every customer is profit, but rather moral-driven or responsible. Child labour and education A survey of slum settlements in Dhaka (Bangladesh). children in this case. The End of Cheap Labor: Are Foreign In-vestors Leaving China? Availa-ble at: https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/kant.1976.67.issue-1-4/kant.1976.67.1-4.570/kant.1976.67.1-4.570.xml [Accessed April 29, 2020]. Utilitarianism is part of a larger family of consequentialist ethical theoriestheories according to which the rightness or wrongness of actions is determined by their tendency to produce good or bad consequences or outcomes. "At a time when they were saying there are labor shortages, they were finding kids that would do the work," Maki says of the recent Packers Sanitation case. (9 February 2021): pp. Corporate social responsibility and access to finance. et al. [34] Kreikebaum, H. (2006). Table A1. Regional Returns to Education, Child Labour and Schooling in India. Un-ternehmensethik und globale Mrkte. Social Philosophy in Postcolonial Africa: Some Preliminaries Concerning Communalism and Communitarianism. poverty and the absence of social welfare systems. Purpose: Grounded in the theoretical concepts of utilitarianism and deontology, this paper aims to evaluate the issue of child labour from an ethics perspective. The major difficulty with Utilitarianism is that it is unable to deal with rights and justice. "All of us together as a society and an economy have to come together and make sure that we are protecting our kids. Consequently, actions are acceptable, regardless of means and motives, as long as the happiness created is greater than the pain (Shoemaker, 1999 [38]; Ferrell et al., 2015 [39] ). Posted: 11 Feb 2022. Available at: https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/3201869 [Accessed April 29, 2020]. That's hard. [42] Morris, R.C. [online]. Utilitarianismis an ethical theory that says that the right thing to do in any situation is whatever will do the most good (that is, whatever will produce the best outcomes) taking into consideration the interests of all concerned parties. Worker misclassification is a serious problem, but evidence of a large increase in full-time gig work. Surely youve heard of Frito-Lay, which makes Cheetos, and General Mills, which makes Lucky Charms and Nature Valley granola bars. In consent, Pierik (2007) [9] expounds by referring to culturally diverse concepts of childhood. For their part, Hearthside and Forge both assured theTimesthat they obey the law. She also said minors who want to work deserve the same level of choice as those who want to participate in other after-school activities. expert interviews in order to obtain expert opinions on this topic would certainly be insightful and would provide future researchers with new avenues of research. Almost every second child is aged 5 - 11. Basically, the ILO (2017a) [10] in accordance with UNCRC (1989) [19] holds. Cross-Cultural Ethics and the Child Labor Problem. Or franchisees agree to terms so outrageously advantageous to the franchising name-brand company that they cant really expect to clear a profit without cutting some corners. South African Journal of Phi-losophy, 27(4), pp.332339. 5. (1999). [48] Reath, A. The Global Sourcing and Codes of Conduct Debate: Five Myths and Five Recommendations. Besides, children are abused as means of cheap labour for the ends of low-cost production, which is likewise contrary to Kants categorical imperative. (2013). A total, that has declined by 10% in a period of a mere four years since 2012 (167.9 million) (ILO, 2017) [3]. (With exceptions for farm families, child actors, and a few others, child labor under age 14 is illegal.) (Edited by D. F. Norton & M. J. [44] Posner, R.A. (1979). c. acting only out of a self-interest. Global Estimates of Child Labour: RESULTS AND TRENDS, 2012-2016. To Education, child actors, and its not such a bad fate managers and global supply chain managers Sourcing! 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