The bureau of international labor affairs ilab maintains a list of goods and their. This paper analyses the current trend of global child labour, and investigates the causes and consequences of child labour with a particular attention on globalisation child labour nexus. The 2017 global estimates of modern slavery and child labour found in the past five years, 89 million people experienced some form of modern slavery. Child labour is the employment of children in an industry or business especially when it is illegal or considered exploitative. Child labour in the fashion supply chain the guardian. It is a challenge and longterm goal in many countries to abolish all forms of child labour. Girls tend to combine agricultural and domestic duties, and their work is. Impact of mergers and acquisitions on employment and.
Jamaica is a destination and source country for commercial sexual exploitation of children. Around 260 million children are in employment around the world, according to the international labour organisation pdf. For children who manage to combine work and education, performance at school often suffers. The worst forms of child labour involves children being enslaved, separated from. The 2001 national census of india estimated total number of child labor aged. We control for the endogeneity of child labor using instrumental variable techniques.