Awareness and Attitudes towards the Ethics of Child Labour

Sergei Pismennyi

Bachelor's thesis

Abstract:

This work addresses the ethics of child labour related issues in modern society. The problem of child labour can be seen and observed in almost every environment and society, including even developed and progressive examples. Nowadays, the world has adopted a dynamic and, sometimes, clandestine mechanism, where people barely know anything about the goods and services they order or consume, apart from basic information written on etiquettes. As a consequence, enterprises and companies around the globe are able to conduct the business and production circle whilst neglecting or willingly overlooking the fact a company exploiting vulnerable children and engaging them in child labour, primarily deprives children of their childhood. The author’s perception of the child labour issue has prompted him to take an insight into the problem, understand the way how children are lured into child labour, what are the repercussions, and finally, what can be done in order to prevent it from happening. The author will draw conclusions on how the level of awareness of such issues can be raised, based on the results from the practical part obtained through the series of interpersonal interviews and the survey. Eventually, the author will try to estimate and what can be changed in order to address the issues more effectively.

Keywords

Awareness, Child labour, Inequality, Deprivation, Educational issues, Ethics, Slavery, Exploitation

Language used: English

Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 15. 3. 2021

Thesis defence

• Supervisor: Daniel Rosenhaft Swain, Ph.D. MA

Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

Faculty of Economics and Management

Bachelor programme / field:
Economics Policy and Administration / Business Administration