Dignity of Work and the Rights of Workers

 Everyone deserves a job, when they're older that is. In many countries children are illegally forced to work in harsh conditions that are bad for their health and in big factories. In many countries and continents they are trying to get rid of child labor like in China, Africa, and Latin America. 250 million kids our age and younger are forced to work harsh hours with little to no pay. Nearly all types of child labor happen in the U.S., whether it is agricultural, factory work, or even sexual slavery. Most child laborers in the U.S. work on farms out in the west. According to the Human Rights, over half of interviewed farm workers worked in a field that was just sprayed with fertilizer and a third had been sprayed themselves. Also the workers are commonly beaten, whipped, and threatened for low quality work. This is a horrible thing that not only takes away the dignity but the rights of a worker, which would be the child. I think that children shouldn’t be working with or without pay anyway. I mean chores are fine because that is contributing to your family and house, but making children do those things in my mind is just as bad as slavery.
-Joe Perry