mercoledì 14 febbraio 2018

Il lavoro minorile secondo Paul Krungman

La migliore medicina contro la prostituzione minorile?
Il lavoro minorile!
Parola di Paul Krugman:
"Could anything be worse than having children work in sweatshops? Alas, yes. In 1993, child workers in Bangladesh were found to be producing clothing for Wal-Mart, and Senator Tom Harkin proposed legislation banning imports from countries employing underage workers. The direct result was that Bangladeshi textile factories stopped employing children. But did the children go back to school? Did they return to happy homes? Not according to Oxfam, which found that the displaced child workers ended up in even worse jobs, or on the streets -- and that a significant number were forced into prostitution"