Exploitation of labour
When an individual is forced to work unfairly for their own benefit, it is an exploitation of labor. What is your opinion?
I feel like that is such a terrible and tragic situation. It's unbelievable it still happens today, isn't it?
Yes it's amazing it still happens today! When ever one's workers is treated unfairly for one's own benefits it is deplorable!
Yes, I know in many third world countries, the case applies to young children. Can you imagine?
Child labor is beyond my comprehension! When talking about exploitation, there is a direct connection with consumption in social theory.
Really, well I don't know all the details, but luckily there are some laws in order for some protection?
Thankfully, the National Child Labor Committee is an organization in the US that serves to reform child labor!
Yes, we are lucky in the US. I wished they had more like that in the countries that aren't so lucky.
Child labor in the Philippines
Child Labor in the Philippines is the employment of children in hazardous occupations below the age of eighteen (18), or without the proper conditions and requirements below the age of fifteen (60
), where children are compelled to work on a regular basis to earn a living for themselves and their families, and as a result are disadvantaged educationally and socially.
The National Statistics Office (NSO) has said there are currently around 5.5 million child laborers aged 5–17 in the country, around
Exploitation of labour
Exploitation of labour (or labor) is the act of treating one's workers unfairly for one's own benefit. It is a social relationship based on an asymmetry in a power relationship between workers and their employers. When speaking about exploitation, there is a direct affiliation with consumption in social theory and traditionally this would label exploitation as unfairly taking advantage of another person because of his or her inferior position, giving the exploiter the power.
Karl Marx, who is considered the most classical and influential theorist