1.. How would Marx explain why there is so much child labor in the world today?

2. How would Marx characterize what is happening to these children? Do you agree?

3. What ethical obligations do Adkin Blue Ribbon Packing The company, Cargill, Fruit of the Loom, Nike, Adidas, and Puma have to deal with these issues? Why?

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Marx's Children T: ON THE EDGE he terrible conditions under which workers - particularly child workers-of the nineteenth century had to labor inspired much of Marx's writing. Yet many of these conditions continue to day. The International Labor Organization estimates that 218 million children work today. According to a 2010 report of Human Rights Watch many U.S. farm companies have children working for them. Maria started working for a farm at age 11: You sweat. You walk until your feet hurt, you have blisters, and until you have cuts all over your hands... The ages of fellow child workers) were always varied, 11 and 12 year olds, even 10 year olds... The growers know that children are there. They see that they would pass by when they drop off water. No one was going to say anything... The pay less than minimum wage) was terrible... You had to go really fast... You had to bend down for hours until your next break... There 15 were people who got sick from posticides... 15 They never told us they were spraying Ipes- ticides), they would just say "watering"... One summer... they were spraying things we didn't know what they were. We heard it was chemicals In developing countries, child workers are com mon. In Uzbekistan, about 2 million children are forced to work on cotton farms each year, particu larly during harvest season. During cotton growing season, children weed the cotton plants and spray them with pesticides. One child said, "It's so hot in the fields and the chemicals burn your skin if they touch it." Although many U.S. companies have agreed not to use cotton from Uzbekistan, others have refused to boycott cotton grown with forced child labor including Cargill and Fruit of the Loom. In the soccer ball industry, child labor con tinues to be used to stitch soccer balls together in spite of a 1997 industry agreement to end the use of child workers. A 2010 report of the Interna- tional Labor Rights Forum indicates that child labor occurs in China and India where stitching is done in workers' homes and not in a factory. Geeta, a 12 year-old girl stitcher from Kamalpur in India said, "I have been stitching footballs for as long as I can remember. My hands are constantly in pain. It feels like they are burning." Children must work in a hunched position for 5 to 7 hours to make two soccer balls for 3-4 rupees per ball (a total of 7.5 to 10 cents), Nike, Adidas, and Puma are among the largest companies that buy soccer balls from Indian manufacturers wwwwww