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[laments]

i'm currently doing a module on South Asia Studies. One of the central themes is the exploitation of women and children.

This excerpt is taken from Neera Burra's "Born to Work - Child Labour in India". (1997)

Ch2, Where are children working?
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Beedi IndustryOf all the industries employing children, the beedi industry in India and the carpet

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[realsilicon]

tv does good sometimes. while watching star world the other day, they were talking about the tin-mining industry in philippines and how children partake in it even though it's against the law (poverty leads to exploitation hobviously) and how they'd blow up the mines using some cheap explosives and how it could endanger the miners. they cut to a scene of some kid who's got a nasty gash down his spine and a hobble to his walk because of the explosive mechanism to mine the tin.

isn't this ridiculous that while we're whinging about not having a trust-fund-esque allowance to buy a pretty new ipod, some kids living in the same planet as we are is worrying about his family's next meal. i say we're terrible in dividing resources. which is why socialism is the way to go. equal portions for everyone.

[laments]

yes exactly! i read a little about the mines too.. if i'd been lazy and decided not to study for my exams i wouldn't have came across these..

i felt like i've got no rights to feeling depressed/unhappy compared to that, yet how easy it is to slip back into the old way of life demanding for this and that. there's no end to satisfying greed, thus the unequal resource distribution i guess. but it is scary the extent to which we hoard wealth, even if it comes at the expense of others.. and at such high price too

my lunch alone could have freed two of those children who were 'sold' to bondage labour... isn't that abusrd or what?

[robotunderwear]

that's really shocking.. :(
sad and absurd. this world is so unbelievably unequal. :(

[laments]

yes...
it's disturbing reading too much of that
but it's not as if if i ignore it/don't think about it, it would be relegated to nonexistence..

hmm i guess the first step's awareness..

[mamachkola]

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