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Article

13 May 2005

Author:
Ching-Ching Ni, Los Angeles Times [USA]

China's Use of Child Labor Emerges From the Shadows

Statistics are hard to come by, but in some estimates, as many as 10 million school-age children are doing their part to turn China into a low-cost manufacturing powerhouse...poverty and lopsided development have driven a disproportionate number of rural children out of the classrooms and into lives of labor...children are victims of kidnappings and contract labor arrangements in which they are forced to work.