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Common conjecture has it that child labour was more or less wiped out inpost-liberation China and that its reappearance is directly linked to theincreased role of private enterprise in the Chinese economy. It was well knownthat the use of child labour was widespread before the Chinese Communist Party(CCP) took power in 1949. The use of children was a fundamental part of China'sfirst attempts to industrialize. The following description of a Tianjin cottonmill is the early 1930's illustrates this: "Children labored in every department: boys in the departments where male adultspredominated, girls in the women's department. In the spinning mills they weremost often put to work at piecing.... In the weaving mill they were assigned toheddling, or threading the warp along a set of parallel cords in the loom
Nonetheless, the fact that child labour is now clearly back is largely acceptedboth inside and outside China, even if it's extent remains mostly unmeasured. Calum and Lijia MacLeod: "Never Seen Never Heard" in SCMP 12/07/003. The logic of competitiveproduction with a poorly regulated labour market and widespread corruption hasresulted in some employers turning to child labour as a way of reducing costs ofproduction. One of the chief problems in China is the lack of independent NGOsand trade unions that can effectively monitor the problem. Boththese jobs require excellent eyesight, dexterity and concentration. (3) The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) stresses, reliable statistics are anessential tool that governments must have if they are going to take child labourseriously. Workers' daily quoted an employer as saying: "For every pieceproduced by an adult worker, I have to pay one dollar while I only have to pay achild 70 cents. It seems that officials with the Ministry of Labour and Social Security (MOLSS)are not acknowledging the existence of the problem. Children's food and lodging costs are also cheaper. According to a articlepublished in Hong Kong, officials at the MOLSS "claim that no government figuresare available because child labour is not a problem in China. Gail Hershatter: The Workers of Tianjin 1900~1949, pg 54.
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