in india
2006-09-02 08:04:59 · 4 answers · asked by samina 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Bonded labour occurs when the parents of a child accept a small loan (+/-$10) in exchange for their child's labour. Bonded children are exploited, working 10-14 hours/day, seven days a week. They are forced into tedious and treacherous labour. In India, children trafficked in the bidi industry roll 1500 bidis a day while sitting hunched over on concrete. Children in the silk industry scald their hands in boiling vats when retrieving silkworm cocoons. Since the lendor makes it impossible to earn enough to pay off the loan, the children are entrapped and exploited for years. Sometimes a family bonds all members (father, mother, children) in exchange for a larger loan ($1000). The children receive no education and when older, often suffer from severe physical disabilities caused by the conditions under which they were exploited.
2006-09-02 08:06:44 · answer #1 · answered by DeniseM 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Bonded labor is an evil thing that goes on around the world, not just in India!..Children are used as security for cash loans, to work off the value of these loans the children are put to work in factorys and on farms,sometimes for 10 years and more!..this even happens in the USA, check out the fruit and vegetable picking industry, particulaly Texas, Big transnational corporates are also notorious for using this system for cheap labor..Some have been busted for this, check out the sports shoe industry, you'l find 'em there!..The bonded system is as old as Noah, and while there is profit in it..It wont be stopped!
2006-09-02 16:48:35 · answer #2 · answered by paranthropus2001 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
DeniseM is absolutely right, however the trend now is that bonded labour is largely generational - whole families are bonded. And often when a father dies, the child carries on the burden of the so-called "loan"!
2014-07-17 02:19:18 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Marriage.
2006-09-02 15:06:08 · answer #4 · answered by Isis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋