Child Labour
Dr. Michael Sosteric | Aug 23, 2010 | Comments 0
Truth, justice, and the North American way? Not for these children. In fact, globally one child dies of hunger related illnesses every 15 seconds and one in six children are involved in some form of child labour or child exploitation. Not our concern? Next time you buy your Egyptian cotton, sheets, eat your banana, drink your tea, kick a soccer ball, or watch those Disney fireworks, consider where that product might have come from and who harvested/produced it for you.
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About the Author: I'm a professor of sociology at Athabasca University with interests in the transformation of scholarly communication, spirituality and sociology, inequality, gender, ethnicity, and social problems. I was the founding editor of the Electronic Journal of Sociology but realized the limitations of scholarly journals a couple of years ago. The Socjourn is a recent attempt to leverage the "sociology.org" domain to provide an alternative window into the world of sociology that does not depend on the staid and stuffy world of traditional scholarly journals.
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