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Summary: Powerful and shocking study of the
worldwide exploitation of children - to
make carpets in India, shoes in Brazil,
clothes in
Portugal, or to provide sex in Bangkok,
Manila or Rio Earthscan's summary of the publication
Powerful and shocking study of the worldwide exploitation of children
- to make carpets in India, shoes in Brazil, clothes in
Portugal, or to provide sex in Bangkok, Manila or Rio
In Portugal 12 year-olds manufacture clothes destined for British
chain-stores. In Brazil, children work more than nine hours a day
gluing shoes for sale in the West. This book, based on research done
with the cooperation of the Anti-Slavery Society for a major BBC
television documentary, exposes the scandalous exploitation of
children's labor and services throughout the world
- a system from which the national economies of Europe and the USA
profit.
What is eaten, worn and used every day in Western homes is all too
often produced at the expense of children's welfare. Sugar and shoes
from Brazil, tea and textiles from Bangladesh, carpets and brassware
from India, vegetables from Mexico, furniture from the Philippines -
such goods and commodities may well depend upon the labor of children
who are the victims of an inequitable economic order. The other side
of the coin is that as travel to developing countries increases, in
Bangkok, Manila, Rio, juveniles are forced to sell their bodies to
Western tourists.
Peter Lee-Wright is a documentary film maker with the BBC and staff
producer in the Community Programme Unit.
288 pages
Owner: Peter Lee-Wright