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People trafficking is an entirely different matter because that involves the use of force. The employees can go to another employer if that employer treats them
by jules 9y ago
People trafficking is an entirely different matter because that involves the use of force. The employees can go to another employer if that employer treats them better. That is the main protector against bad employers, NOT regulation. Most of the advances in labour protection have been a result of a general increase in wealth and better alternatives. Take child labour for example. It used to be that almost every child from the age of 10 worked. That that isn't the case any more is not a result of laws, it's a result of increased productivity which meant that a family could survive without the children working.
- crdoconnor 9y agoThe elimination of child labor was NOT a result of increased productivity, in fact it grew during the onset of the industrial revolution. it came about as a result of a series of fierce union battles. https://www.continuetolearn.uiowa.edu/laborctr/child_labor/about/us_history.html https://www.continuetolearn.uiowa.edu/laborctr/child_labor/a...
- jules 9y agoChildren worked at their parents' subsistence farms before the industrial revolution. That is still child labour.
- mlindner 9y agoChildren all over the world still do. The families would die if they did not. This is why many farming families have large numbers of children, labor (that gets paid in food and family love).
- jules 9y agoAbsolutely, and the solution to this is not a law that makes their best option to survive illegal, but to offer them a better option.
- crdoconnor 9y agoDid I say that they didn't or that it wasn't?
- jules 9y agoYour source does not actually give the data or methodology for their claim that child labour peaked during the industrial revolution, so there is no way to know how they came to that conclusion, but a reasonable explanation is that they counted children working in factories as child labour but they did not count the close to 100% of children working on their parents' farms as child labour, which was the situation before the industrial revolution.