"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 New York-based campaign China Labor Watch accused it of hiring children - - - BBC - July 14, 2014The majority of Americans would be horrified at the idea of ​​supporting a company that exploits the use of child labor. child labor to produce its products However, chances are we all supported these companies the last time we went shopping. a diamond ring for our fiancés or a bar of chocolate for our hunger, this was probably made with child labor in Indonesia, South Africa or the Ivory Coast The use of child labor. is a major driver of the global economy in today's era of globalization, where American companies like Nike, Reebok and Wal-Marts have taken control of the market. These companies should stop using child labor to produce their products. The West has been trying to combat child labor for years, without much success in curbing the use of child labor across the world. The main reason is the inability to find practical ways to translate our intuitions about which practices should be eliminated into effective solutions. Economically disadvantaged countries, in order to compete in the global economy, have offered child labor (Low Cost Labor) as a competitive advantage and Western companies have let low costs and high profits blind their morals. Therefore, rather than ensuring that no child labor figures into the cost of their product, they have either made or looked away when it comes to child labor. Child labor is any work that harms or exploits them in any way (physical, mental, moral or blocks access to education). UNICEF...... middle of paper...... possible, that's what parents will choose because we assumed they were altruistic http://www.nupi.no/IPS/filestore/ NUPIwp613.pdfhttp://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. ^ Friedman, Milton. Go to the Limits: Milton Friedman on Libertarianism." Interview. February 10, 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.