Child labour may be distasteful to westerners, but does boycotting goods made with child labour improve or exacerbate the lot of third world children? Trusting the market to regulate may not ultimately be in our interest.
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Related It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in ... CAROL BELLAMY To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour; and... DAVID RICARDO I could not identify with harming my child or giving up my child. But I could identify with giving u... DREA DE MATTEO I dream for a world which is free of child labour, a world in which every child goes to school. A wo... KAILASH SATYARTHI A lot of things that we cannot buy and sell in markets used to be totally legal objects of market ex... HA-JOON CHANG To be or not to be. That's not really a question. JEAN-LUC GODARD Facebook may not only propagate cyber-loneliness but exacerbate the pain of loss that estranged fami... EUGENE KENNEDY In the constitution, nowhere does it mention sex discrimination, child labour, segregation. It doesn... 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