tly prohibit such forms of employment from employment practices, as they each have different overall goals that they seek to achieve.
             A business ethical view will be adopted in order to reach draw recommendations as to the moral or immoral acts that are carried out by the use of child labour in India by multinational corporations.
             2.0 INDIA AND ITS SOCIO-ECONOMIC CONDITION
             It has been suggested that "The traditional conception in most societies is that children should be socialized to contribute to the maintenance of the family" (Weiner, 1991, p. 109). This form of thought is not uncommon, especially in India where poverty is exceptionally prevalent in most areas of the country. Families often feel forced to attain work for their children to help the families' economic condition, as unemployment is a high factor among the adult population.
             "In India, the principal reason cited by children of why they began to work was 'the suggestion of the parents'. Most parents said the main reason was that their working children contributed at least 20 percent of household income..." (http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inf/pr/96-18.htm). However, children are employed over adults, as the wages paid to a child are considerably less expensive than those expected in that of an adult wage.
             Burra (1995, p. 11), has noted that there are four kinds of child labour that include: children who work in factories, workshops and mines; children who work under bondage to their employer in either agriculture or industry; children that work and live off the street; and, children who work as part of family labour, and operate in all contexts of industry.
             It can be seen as immoral for the government of India to not to embark fair wages for youth that carry out the same work as that of a adult worker, although, western societies do not employ this method. Consequentially, it may then be seen why t...