"Samsung Electronics said it found "evidence of suspected child labor" at a factory of its Chinese supplier Dongguan Shinyang Electronics. The company conducted an investigation into the supplier after a campaign based in New York The group China Labor Watch accused him of hiring children." - - - BBC - 14 July 2014 A majority of Americans would be horrified to support a company that exploits the use of child labor to produce its goods. However, chances are we all supported these businesses the last time we went shopping. Whether it's a baseball for our son, a diamond ring for our boyfriends, or a candy bar for our hunger, chances are it was produced using child labor in Indonesia, South Africa, or the Coast of 'Ivory. The use of child labor is one of the main drivers of the global economy in today's era of globalization, where US companies such as Nike, Reebok or Wal-Marts have taken control of the market. These companies should stop using child labor to produce their goods. The West has attempted to combat child labor for years now, but has failed to curb the use of child labor around the world. The main reason has been the failure to find practical means to translate our insights into practices that should be eliminated into effective solutions. Economically disadvantaged countries, to compete in the global economy, have offered child labor (cheap labor) as a competitive advantage, and Western companies have let low costs and high profits blind their morality. So rather than making sure that child labor is not part of their product cost, they have embraced or looked the other way when it comes to child labor. Child labor is any work that harms or exploits them in some way (physical, mental, moral or blocking access to education). UNICEF ...... middle of paper ...... possible, that's what parents will choose because we assume they are altruistic http://www.nupi.no/IPS/filestore/NUPIwp613.pdf http:// www .globalexchange.org/campaigns/fairtrade/cocoa/3334.htmlReferences1. ^ abc EP Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class, (Penguin, 1968), pp. 366-72. ^ Hessen, Robert, Capitalism, Concise Encyclopedia of Economics3. ^ ab Nardinelli, Clark, Child labor and the industrial revolution (Indiana University Press, 1990)4. ^ ab Friedman, Milton. Take it to the Limits: Milton Friedman on Libertarianism." Interview. 10 February 1999, 5. ^ Hugh Cunninghame, "The Decline of Child Labor: Labor Markets and Family Economies in Europe and North America Since 1830," Economic History Review, 2000.6. ^ DeGregori, Thomas R., "Child Labor or Child Prostitution?" http://www.cato.org/dailys/10-08-02.html