Comments on: Again hypocrisy http://uzbekistan.neweurasia.net/2007/11/09/again-hypocrisy/ Open discussion about current issues in Uzbekistan Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:47:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: Brian http://uzbekistan.neweurasia.net/2007/11/09/again-hypocrisy/#comment-33062 Brian Sun, 11 Nov 2007 03:31:12 +0000 http://uzbekistan.neweurasia.net/2007/11/09/again-hypocrisy/#comment-33062 Well you'd have to ask yourself, is the child labor in Maine forced or compelled by the authorities on the children or their families, or is it a voluntary measure that the families undertake for their economic well-being? Problem is in Uzbekistan they essentially aren't paid (many children end up owing money after the 2 months are up) and are forced to do it. That's pretty much the definition of slavery as far as I know. Well you’d have to ask yourself, is the child labor in Maine forced or compelled by the authorities on the children or their families, or is it a voluntary measure that the families undertake for their economic well-being?

Problem is in Uzbekistan they essentially aren’t paid (many children end up owing money after the 2 months are up) and are forced to do it. That’s pretty much the definition of slavery as far as I know.

]]> By: Libertad http://uzbekistan.neweurasia.net/2007/11/09/again-hypocrisy/#comment-33058 Libertad Sat, 10 Nov 2007 08:34:14 +0000 http://uzbekistan.neweurasia.net/2007/11/09/again-hypocrisy/#comment-33058 In the case of Maine, I don't think that it is illegal. In Uzbeksitan, during the summer children also help their parents in farming. In this post, I was talking about involvement of child labor in cotton picking, which is not a "a good part of the late summer" as you said, but a good part of fall, when children have to study at schools. And children are freed from schools and forced to go to the cotton fields. I think this IS an obvious and impudent violation of law. What do you think? In the case of Maine, I don’t think that it is illegal. In Uzbeksitan, during the summer children also help their parents in farming. In this post, I was talking about involvement of child labor in cotton picking, which is not a “a good part of the late summer” as you said, but a good part of fall, when children have to study at schools. And children are freed from schools and forced to go to the cotton fields. I think this IS an obvious and impudent violation of law. What do you think?

]]> By: Andrew Yim http://uzbekistan.neweurasia.net/2007/11/09/again-hypocrisy/#comment-33056 Andrew Yim Sat, 10 Nov 2007 01:11:51 +0000 http://uzbekistan.neweurasia.net/2007/11/09/again-hypocrisy/#comment-33056 Perhaps neither here nor there, but for many decades, in the State of Maine (USA), most all the children and adolescents spend a good part of the late summer in the potato fields, gathering the fall harvest. Child labor, for sure, but nothing illegal to my knowledge. More like, a part of life in northern Maine. How different is this from the cotton fields of Uzbekistan? Perhaps neither here nor there, but for many decades, in the State of Maine (USA), most all the children and adolescents spend a good part of the late summer in the potato fields, gathering the fall harvest. Child labor, for sure, but nothing illegal to my knowledge. More like, a part of life in northern Maine. How different is this from the cotton fields of Uzbekistan?

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