Struggling against the Imperfections of Labour Organization: The Lasting Impacts of Child Labour

Abstract

The threat directed to children’s rights and liberties is highly connected to the concept of child labour. The legislative imperfection found on behalf of children’s rights creates a wide range of violations. Thus, employers seize the opportunity of exploiting children for personal gains. The concern of this study is to demonstrate children’s urgent need for legislative interference for banning child labour through protecting children’s rights. Child labour emerged earlier in the eighteenth-century Britain. At that time, children were subject to the highest levels of exploitation, deprivation, and abuse. All the rights were violated including education and safety during work. In Britain, The campaign against child labour took a long decade of struggling. In recent times, millions of children around the world are forced into different forms of labour that are harmful to their physical and mental development. More important still, the spread of other worse forms of labour like sexual exploitation and the involvement in armed conflicts has long-living psychological and physical effects. So, what are the causes and consequences of child labour on children’s rights and how can it be abolished? A combination of some social, economic, and political factors had led to the emergence and spread of child labour in Britain in the eighteenth century. At that time, children’s health and statues were affected severely. Cutting this problem from roots required the cooperation of political figures, social awareness, and updated legislations in addition to imposing strict censorship on employers. Although, some international organizations’ programs have succeeded in eliminating the issue of child labour in some parts of the world, yet the problem is still prevalent and in the worst forms in the other parts. In this vein, the topic is significant for it recommends promoting children’s rights through consolidating new legislations with strict censorship.