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Labor Rights and Child Labor in Bangladesh perspectives- Zillur Rahman

The article’s aims to demonstrate workplace precariousness and precariousness in Bangladesh. The most important question is that Child in Bangladesh and how they are turning into problems for the government, and their effect on society, trafficking in human beings. The main purpose of this analysis is to learn why human trafficking occurs in the labor market.

History of the labor movement in Bangladesh

Bangladesh’s history of the labor movement is long, and very little is known. In Bangladesh, the labor movement has come forward with a bright and sometimes negative character. Just as the labor movement has a major in the garment sectors. Every political party in Bangladesh now has a labor branch there are branches of labor organization from the center with the name of political parties. The political parties can dominate the labors when they need to hold their power. The labor movements took place in this region before the independent War in 1966 but that time Bangladesh was a part of Pakistan. Workers’ organization and movements of garment factories made by Bangladesh are now the most talked about since the collapse of Rana Plaza there has been international pressure to allow labor unions to form. But even though there are about five thousand garment factories, only about five hundred factories have trade union. And the largest labor movement took place in 2006 the garments workers were able to exert pressure on the government for their rights, first through largest movement. They protested fixing their wages. No labor organization has paid their wages. Then they demanded a minimum wage which implement by authority later. After independence, the labor movement of the country was divided into several divisions. Workers’ dissatisfaction with the Karnaphuli Complex and many workers were injured in this labor unrest. At the time there was a conflict between the workers ‘league and the workers federation in the Tongi industrial area. The labor unions divided into several groups. The conflict rival trade unions continued in 1973. As a result of the conflict, many workers were killed in Barbakund industrial area of Chittagong. Bangladesh trade union become a member of the World Trade Union center. After the formation of a new political policy in 1975, a labor organization was officially established across the country. It was a single national labor organization known as National Workers League. “The new neoliberalism was, in brief, less fundamentalist. It is a moot point whether we moved into a post neoliberal state in the 2000s or just witnessed a transformation of the doctrine”

 Starting from the early industrial age of Bengal to today’s world of neoliberal capitalism. The evidence indicates that subjugation and hostility are part of an effort to demonstrate the changing relationship between man, machine and capital. Low wages and insecure work are the most common matter in Bangladesh. The labors are treated as a modern slave in the country and capitalist society focusing on profit rather than workers health, security and their mentality. The most frequent in Bangladesh are low wages and unsafe workplaces. The workers of the country and capitalist society are treated as modern slaves, focused on profit rather than health, safety, and mentality. The policy of the clothing industry was changed after the collapse of Rana Plaza in Dhaka in 2013, although there is no implementation over the country. As a result, World Trade Union, print media, electronic media and social media impact on the entire system was the biggest tragedy in Bangladesh’s industrial sectors.

Trade unions and the labor movement more broadly have for, their part a complex relationship with the prevalent human rights discourse. On the one hand, the international trade union movement has tended to support human rights and can see the pragmatic benefits of slogan such as ‘labor rights are human rights”.(Carl-Ulrik Schierup, 2015)

Child labor and human rights: Child labor is one of Bangladesh’s most critical issues. There are 34 million and 50,000 children engaged in highly dangerous work, according to the population census in 2013. Several human rights activists are interested in this issue, although there are few positive results.

Talking about the beginning of child labor

At the end of the 18th century, when the factory began in Britain, child labor was first identified as a social issue. But it’s been a terrible thing from abuse. Child labor arose as a known issue after the civil war in the eastern, midwestern, and southern United States at the age of 1910. Children were employed in the industries at the time as apprentices or housekeepers. The slavery began in different from. In the year 1802 and the years that followed, child labor was stopped by the British parliament’s legislature. Other laws are also being followed in Europe.

In most European countries, laws were banned in the year 1940, despite the need to increase production back on track during World War II. The supreme court in the United States prohibited child labor laws passed by the 1918 and 1922 U.S. Congress. Although the 1924 congress passed a constitutional amendment, it was not approved in many states. The first Labor Standard in 1938 and sets the minimum age of work. Several groups are trying to save children in Bangladesh. The government of Bangladesh is under pressure to ban child labor, and they are also working to ensure their education. The country’s circumstance is not positive, as approximately 40% of the population lives below poverty. Children’s parents are not even able to provide food. Most children engage in criminal activity to exploit them in their workplace.

GENEVIEVE LEBARON mentioned “Today far, from being restricted to the fringes of the economy, the worst from of labor exploitations can be found in the supply chains of key industries, including apparel, seafood, jewellery, coal, carpets cattle and electronics.”

Human Trafficking in Bangladesh.

In Bangladesh, forced labor and human trafficking are thought to be widespread, both inside and outside the country even across borders. A considerable number of Bangladeshis, mainly young people, are targeted and subjected to work overseas through false job promises for the exploitation of labor conditions by forced labor or debt slavery. Similar enhancements in the security of labor rights have not supplemented the strong economic growth encountered in Bangladesh since the 1980s. Economic development has developed jobs as a result, but with low wages, tough and hazardous working conditions. In Bangladesh, labor manipulation takes many forms from poorly paid and extreme working hours to risky and unkind employment conditions to physical and emotional abuse. Such abuse may in some situations lead to forced labor, smuggling in human beings, and slavery. Perpetrators of domestic labor trafficking have been found in brick kilns, in the manufacture of clothing in the farming industry and the building industry in Bangladesh.

Zillur Rahman

Student Department of Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO)

Linkoping University, Sweden.

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