Human Trafficking

Significances:
We are given the story through the eyes of the voctims, in this case the two girls, "Solomon" and "Rebecca", this givesus a different persective to things as they give us the story of why they were dragged into this area of work and how their "unlces" manipulated them.

Analysis:
This article gives us the story of two girls who were promised a good future, food shelter and protection. At the mere age of ten these girls had one dream, going to school. As soon as the girls arrived into the town they were promised an education in, their real future was releaved, they were to live a life of trafficking, selling sachets of water and washing plates in a street kitchen.

Quote:
"They had promised to look after them and send them to school, but they were instead subjected to a daily routine of beatings and verbal abuse."

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"If in a day I made 2,000 naira ($17) I told him that was enough to send me to school but he said: 'No more about school,' and he beat me. He used a rope to tie me and sometimes he lifted me up."


Citation:
Walker, Andrew. "Trafficked children tell their stories". BBC. 24/10/2009 .

Child Labour

Significances:
This article talks about the different areas of production children are involved in and the various products and working conditions they are exposed to. The article says that 69% of child labour around the world is actually agricultural and defined child labour as anyone under 15 in the work force.

Analysis:
This article gives us a better insight to seeing the areas of work in which children are involved. It gives us some statistics to help us better understand what these children are producing and defines their area of work. We are told of the countries in which this labour is mostly occuring and opens our eyes to how often and widely spread child labor actually is.

Quote:
"Elimination of exploitive child labor or forced labor from a sector or a country requires intensive, sustained commitment by governments, employers, workers, and civil society organizations."

Citation:
Osterman, Cynthia. "Child, forced labor behind many products: study". Reuters. 17/10/2009 .

Cheap Labour

Significances:
The article looks at a different aspect of cheap labor, it looks through the companies eyes and protrays their feelings towards hourly wages.

Analysis:
In the UK, companies are threatening employees with job losses in order to put off raising the minimum wage by 30 cents an hour. the overall cost to the companies when this wage is raised will be an estmiated 2.7billion in two years which puts them at a significant loss. There is no doubt that companies in the long run could still see profits. Tesco for example makes a 2.35bn profit which went up 17% from last year.

Quote:
"Every year members of the British Retail Consortium predict that an increase in the minimum wage will cause massive job losses and they are proven wrong," said TUC chief Brendan Barber.

Citation:
anon, "Minimum wage 'causing job losses' ". BBC. 17/10/2009 .