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Il lavoro minorile secondo Paul Krungman

Riccardo Mariani

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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"

In difesa del lavoro minorile

Children at Work – More Sex Is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics
Steven E. Landsburg –

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Punti chiave: L’ Africa di oggi è un po’ come l’ottocento europeo (dove non esistevano multinazionali sfruttatrici): chi allora avesse invocato leggi contro il lavoro minorile nel nostro continente sarebbe stato, giustamente, considerato un pazzo – Considerate una legge che ci obbligasse a comprare una Ferrari. Come la giudichereste? – Le scelte dei poveri sono generalmente assennate, comprese quelle dei genitori poveri – La nostra esperienza: è la ricchezza a togliere i bambini dal posto di lavoro, non le leggi – Vuoi aiutare l’Africa? manda soldi, evita leggi cervellotiche che probabilmente si riveleranno dannose – 

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Dr. David Livingstone, the African explorer, medical missionary, and hero of the Victorian Age, began his career at age ten, working 84-hour weeks at the local cotton mill.

Note:LIVINGSTONE

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protesters’ call for trade agreements that “protect” third-world children by limiting the number of hours they can work

Note:LA PROTEZIONE INVOCATA

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Being poor means making hard choices, such as whether to work more or to eat less.

Note:LE SCELTE DEI POVERI

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In fact, third worlders are making pretty much exactly the same choices that Americans and other Westerners made, back in the nineteenth century

Note:OTTOCENTO EUROPEO

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In England in 1860, about 37 percent of 10-to 14-year-old boys were classified as “gainfully employed”…In present-day Africa, it’s under 30 percent, and in India it’s half that….

Note:PERCENTUALI

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In the United States between 1890 and 1930, per capita income rose by 75 percent and child labor fell by about the same percentage.

Note:PIÙ RICCHI MENO BIMBI AL LAVORO

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there were no foreign corporations in Victorian Britain and children went to work just the same.

Note:LE CATTIVA MULTINAZIONALI CHE NON C’ERANO NELL’OTTOCENTO

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Multiple studies have shown that in developing countries, most parents take their children out of the labor force as soon as they can afford to.

Note:GENITORI CHE VOGLIONO BENE AI LORO FIGLI

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If there’s a key difference between Western historical experience and the current situation in the third world, it’s this: when we were poor, nobody else was rich

Note:LA DIFFERENZA

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responses endorsed by the anti-sweatshop crowd—kick back, relax, keep your environment clean, and don’t worry so much about where your next meal is coming from—are responses that have never worked well for poor

Note:RILASSATEVI!

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If you think you can make third worlders better off by forcing them to make first-world-style decisions about labor and the environment, why stop there? Why not require them all to buy Sony PlayStations?

FERRARI OBBLIGATORIA!

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Why India's Ban Against Child Labor Increased Child Labor http://feedly.com/e/w8wcwHSX

Why India's Ban Against Child Labor Increased Child Labor

Why India's Ban Against Child Labor Increased Child Labor, James Schneider | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty:



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Hanson a caccia di ipocrisie

E' sempre uno spettacolo. Qui su bambini, lavoro e sindacati:

... Kids work hard at school, housework, sports, practicing music, supporting clubs, etc. and none of this cruelty is prevented by "child labor" laws. Such laws only prevent getting paid to work; they don't even stop kids interning for free. If child labor laws come from our revulsion at miserable kids, why are there no laws preventing tiger moms from making their kids practice music for hours straight without a bathroom break, or against parents who make their older kids work full time taking care of younger kids?... The history of child labor law is closely associated with unions seeking less competition for adult labor... And today self-righteous indication about foreign child labor supports protectionism, to keep out foreign products that compete with local firms... keeping poor kids from working for money not only unfairly biases the work vs. school competition, it needlessly impoverishes poor kids and their families... While we claim to care so so much about kids forced to do hard and tedious tasks, we only actually prevent doing such tasks for money

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Sfruttamento minorile

Infant industry' argument has been a pretext to protect inefficient industries for over 200 years.