Everything from the brand new shoes on your feet, to the baseball cap on your head to the bad your caring around your shoulder is the work of the some of the biggest name brands in the fashion industry. They look appealing, comfortable and of course fashionable, but no one ever stops and thinks where they actually come from and how they got on your body. You didn’t know how many hours it took to make that one garment or what they working conditions were like that they had to sweat over so you could look good for a day, and the worst part of it is that they are simply children. Child labor is a growing industry, which employs millions of children across the globe. Big manufacturing countries outsource to third world countries thinking that they can get cheap labor in producing their products. How ever they don’t realize the effects on the kids that they are exploiting. In Latin American countries, the effects of child labor are astonishing and completely disturbing. From their everyday schedule to their gruesome living standards and limited pay, this is not the life that people should have to be living in. With these conditions, its is amazing that they are able to survive at all with the extreme conditions. With child labor, human rights are being exploited and unnecessary               

Precautions are being used to make clothes that aren’t even needed.

            Child labor around the globe is violating the basic of human rights and needs an evaluation about what they are doing to innocent children around the globe. For example, when was it ever right to push hundreds of children into crowded workrooms with heavy machine for long workdays. They are given little food and are unable to function and are putting their young lives in danger. With so many countries around the world involved with child labor, a certain definition needs to define what that actually means. According to the International Labor Organization, it states “the ‘child labor’ of concern is generally employment that prevents effective school attendance, and which is often performed under conditions hazardous to the physical and mental health of the child (United States Department of Labor). It is saying that children are allowed to do work, such as family businesses or work that does not interfere with school or harm them, but as soon as any of these conditions are violated and the child is put in danger, that is when child labor becomes a problem and needs to be stopped. However most companies don’t care about the regulations or rules that prevent child labor and keep kids safe. Many people take for granted that the live in the United States where child labor is completely unacceptable, and they never truly think about how children in other countries are constantly working in unfair conditions just to survive. David L. Parker stated that “250 million children

Worldwide still labour (sic) to sustain basic needs”(Street Children and Labor around the world). Some children are still in work because they need the money to survive, though they may be killing themselves to get it.

         The reality of the working conditions is unbearable and the reasons that the kids need to work are once again alarming. The garment industry, one of the most popular forms of child labor within the world, is constantly looking to outsource because of the demanding marketing prices. In our society today, competition leads to the constant fall of prices and the lower the prices equals the continuing lowering the price of the workers, which leads to the exploitation of children in the labor force. The ILO (International Labor Organization states

         ...the competition between an increasing number of developing countries to win contracts has a downward effect on wages and working conditions in enterprises specialized in providing low-range articles - for which the production cost must be as low as possible. Only by filling a slot in the market for higher-range goods can these enterprises break out of this vicious circle in which production costs must be compressed for them to remain competitive. (United States Bureau of International Affairs).

This statement accounts for the rising number of child labor within the constantly growing and changing work force.