Child labor: The inconvenient truth behind India’s growth story
“People have dropped the ball” (Misra & Jacobs, 2017, s. L. 18). Those are the words from the UNICEF child protector in India, Joachim Theis, who also states that child labor “is being seen as something which is too difficult to stop”. Since India gained independence seventy years ago, their economy and wealth has been booming, and at one point the country overtook China as the world’s fastest growing economy. But even though India’s economy has been growing significantly over the last several years, a lot of children are still suffering from child labor. 33 million children from the age of 5 and up to the age of 18, are working, and a stunning 33 percent of these children are under the age of 15. India has tried turning this situation around for a long time, and is trying to rehabilitate former child workers, and even though it has worked for some years, the situation of child labor is once again rising in the major cities. That brings us back to the statement from Joachim Theis. Is child labor really a problem that is too difficult to stop?
The article “Child labor: The inconvenient truth behind India’s growth story” is an informative article written by two student, Josh Jacobs and Reeva Misra. It was published in the newspaper ‘The Washington post’ in 2017. The text mainly focuses on the current situation of child labor in India, and it states that even after India’s massive economic growth over the last several years, the child labor situation in the country is still a big problem. The main objective of this article is to inform the readers about the current child labor industry in India and the problems it brings to the country. (Misra & Jacobs, 2017)
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