Sunday, November 25, 2007

Reading task 3 (summary+vocabulary+critique)

Summary: In the book “Children at Work” Page 89 to Page 108, Anne Kielland and Maurizia Tovo talk focus on the “Child labor in the commercial labor market” (Pg 89). The first market mentioned by Kielland and Tovo is the “commercial agriculture” (Pg 91) which points out the development countries hair the children work for their commercial products in Africa and the children are always underpay. In addition, authors showed another big market which called “domestic service” (Pg 94). This part introduced the children who do the “house servants” (Pg 95) jobs. Moreover, the authors analysis how the child labors work for the “Petty Trade”(Pg99) and their suffering. In the rest part of these 20 pages, Kielland and Maurizia add information about the children who works in the bar and restraint.

Vocabulary
#domestic: of the home, household or family
#petty trade: a work which is doing all the small works
#porter: person whose job is carrying people’s luggage and other loads
#sibling: any one of tow or more people with the same parents
#mutuality: things have the connection or the relationship
#manioc: cassava
#subcontractor: person, company, etc that accepts and carries out a subcontract
#destitute: without money, food, etc and other things necessary for life
#polygamy: custom of having more than one wife at the same time
#fraudulent: deceitful or dishonest
#commodity: thing bought in a shop and put to use
#coltineuse
#charade: charades game in which one team acts a series of little plays containing syllables of a word which the other team tries to guess

Reading Critique
In these 20 pages, authors want to state that the commercial market supports the child labor in different way. They discussed how the commercial market and child labor effect to each other do. Authors give the examples and their experiences in Africa from Page 89 to Page 95 and give the analysis from Page 95 to Page 101.
I agree with the authors’ opinion. The commercial market and the child labor do not exist separately. They effect to each other and develop by both influences. In the example about an Africa child who works as house revenants in this book Page 98. He says that they know the market is not legal and they cannot be traded well, but they must work for live. As the author says in the analysis part, this kind of mind just give more opportunities to the employer and the people who do the child labor trade. They build a bad condition for the child labor because they know the child labor must to work even in this condition.
From Page 89 to Page 101, all the examples and analysis about the children work for commercial agriculture, domestic service and for the bar and restraint can support my opinion.

2 comments:

Emily said...

ok, another work place for the children...
everytime i feel sad when i am hearing your summay, as well as that i feel lucky myself.
we need a sloution for this problem.

Yan said...

I am interested in your final research. very interesting topic, keep going...