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37 Denv. J. Int'l L. & Pol'y 421 (2008-2009)
Sacrificial Lambs of Globalization: Child Labor in the Twenty-First Century

handle is hein.journals/denilp37 and id is 427 raw text is: SACRIFICIAL LAMBS OF GLOBALIZATION: CHILD LABOR IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY DR. RANEE KHOOSHIE LAL PANJABI* I. INTRODUCTION The idea of progress has dominated global thinking for the past few centuries. Politically, progress has enshrined concepts of human rights and brought freedom and democracy to many parts of the world that had previously only known absolutism and autocracy. Economically, the notion of progress has knit the world via the pathways of globalization into an inter-dependent unit where people engage in an international division of labor involving all levels of manufacturing and service provision. The resulting growth of human-developed technology has shrunk the world in terms of communications and dissemination of knowledge on a scale never conceived before. With this development of a vast and powerful international market place there should have been a greater sharing of profits and the benefits. Unfortunately, this has not been the case. Socially, globalization has brought greater comprehension of diversity and the necessity for tolerance of the infinite variety of cultures that flourish on this amazing planet. However, economic progress has been largely at the expense of the most vulnerable elements of almost every society. Those elements, the poor, the illiterate, and particularly the children of the poor have paid a terrible price so that we in the richer countries might enjoy an orgy of consumerism at reasonable prices. Our need to buy and consume, but always at very low prices, has required that food and manufactured goods be produced to sell inexpensively but still provide sufficient profit. One methodology to achieve this aim is to utilize either very cheap labor - hence the export of manufacturing from the West to the developing world - or worse, much worse, to use slavery and child labor, and pay almost nothing to those who make our goods and harvest our food. This research demonstrates that child labor prevails across the planet, in both rich and poor countries. Although it may be decreasing in some parts of the world, that is no comfort to those children caught in its brutal grip. This research has also verified the extent of international concern about this terrible practice, which robs the childhood of thousands.. The Economist stated that of all the alleged sins of . Dr. Ranee K.L. Panjabi is a Labor Relations Arbitrator and a Full Professor of History at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. This article is dedicated to my mother, Lata K.L. Panjabi, author, poet, and my rock and inspiration. In writing this I memorialize my father, Khooshie Lal Panjabi, diplomat, author and journalist whose concern for human well-being affected all those he encountered.

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