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Showing posts with label labour security. Show all posts

Laurence Daley
LAURENCE DALEY 6 days ago
One should note

that Evo Morales de facto communist president for life

of Bolivia is also head of the coca growers union


and that Bolivia is source of much of the coca that feeds the cocaine trade flowing north
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Elliot Carver
ELLIOT CARVER 7 days ago
None of our business.
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Ian Watson
IAN WATSON 7 days ago
Absolutely right
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justme
JUSTME 7 days ago
The employment of children act allows British children of that age to work as long as they work in a family business. i.e corner shop.
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Jools
JOOLS 8 days ago
One wonders what has happened to humanity. A world where it is legal for children to work, a world where dead bodies are treated like dirt, a world where murder in the name of religion is excused and all profited by the arms dealers who never bear arms themselves. This is a very sad world indeed.
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kependela
KEPENDELA 8 days ago
It's worth mentioning that Bolivia is one of the poorest countries in the world
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Henry Page
HENRY PAGE 8 days ago
... and the word is 'ingrained' not 'engrained'
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Disraeli
DISRAELI 8 days ago
I wonder if it's the child or the parents that are legally entitled to the wages under this legislation.
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ed t
ED T 8 days ago
Brillant typo 'a total of 1 billion', suddenly Bolivia becomes one one the most populace counties on Earth!

If the goverment of Bolivia are being realistic and recognising the problem that the exsiting law is being ignored. Then better to get to grip with the situation and encourage that they do education at the same time in life which they currently do not get. These chidren will probably have a greater hunger for education as they will want to get on and use the Presidents example of social mobility.
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flighty2
FLIGHTY2 8 days ago
Children should be able to engage with the real working world and learn practical skills at an early age rather than just play sports. Some may say that the present use of children's time serves the education system itself rather more than children's successful employment. Give them some choice.
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kependela
KEPENDELA 8 days ago
Education shouldn't be about making kids suitable for capitalists to profit from
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Henry Page
HENRY PAGE 8 days ago
And exactly how do you protect such children from abuse from unrelated adults? Surely it is better to leave children to be children? Look at successful countries, do they work their children? No!
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seumusin
SEUMUSIN 8 days ago
Maybe I am narrow minded... I come from a very working class, British childhood and I see no harm in children learning outside school as well as inside school...

Not entirely sure why we have to pay (enornously) "professional" teachers in order to learn.

I also see no harm in children earning a little money.

Sory about that now...
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Bryan Hemming
BRYAN HEMMING 8 days ago
Child labour is common throughout the Western world too, where many parents with small businesses force their children to work for nothing or next to nothing. I did my fair share with a father, who preferred drinking and gambling to providing proper care for his four children.
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Nestor Makhno
NESTOR MAKHNO 8 days ago
This is what will happen the world over if the reactionary Right has their way. The need for Libertarian Socialist Revolution has never been greater.
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glyn thompson
GLYN THOMPSON 8 days ago
'Bolivia becomes first nation to legalise child labour for over 10s': don't tell Cameron.
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julia.london
JULIA.LONDON 8 days ago
Child labour will never improve poverty,for the simple reason that a child employee is always a cheap substitute for an adult one.
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OldgeetTom
OLDGEETTOM 8 days ago
Whatever fine-sounding laws are on the books, child labor is common throughout much of the Third World. It's that way becoz the global banks arrange it. Then, they can ponce off the resulting cheap raw materials & manufactures imported. Read all about how it is done in, 'I Was an Economic Hitman' by John Perkins.

Such is the gross unequality of economic power, the West's Vogons can even export (offshore) exploitation & slavery, then the imported cheap goods are sold at inflated prices to their more advantaged citizens (Walmarting). The USA has done this to such an extent, it has destroyed its once thriving industrial base & reduced many of its citizens to unemployed, peon status. The US state has been robbed of tax income by its monster corps claiming tax-free, international status. Meantime, its downtrodden citizens are hunted relentlessly for income tax if they work abroad - 'Only little people pay taxes'.
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The Hitch
THE HITCH 8 days ago
[It is estimated that a total of 1 billion of Bolivia’s children between the ages of five and 17 currently work, making up 15 per cent of the country’s workforce.] 

So Bolivia has approx' 7 billion people in work. Someone should tell IDS - he could learn a thing or two.
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turnpikemac
TURNPIKEMAC 8 days ago
How dreadful. This was similar to the situation in England back in the 19th Century. About time this Bolivia moved into the 21st Century. The best way to eradicate poverty is through education.
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kependela
KEPENDELA 8 days ago
How does education eradicate poverty? In order to produce more you need to be able to mobilise more wealth in production.
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keefyc
KEEFYC 8 days ago
Don't tell the Tories - they will bring it in in the UK.
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Upton Sinclair
UPTON SINCLAIR 8 days ago
It's called "labour market flexibility" (no trade-unions = good thing) and it's important to damp down what's often called "wage inflation" (i.e. increasing wages = bad thing)
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Bolivia becomes first nation to legalise child labour Bolivia becomes first nation to legalise child labour

The legislation that was signed on Thursday lowers the legal working age from 14 to 10 Bol...

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