Child Labour in China Common conjecture has it that child labour was more or less wiped out in post-liberation China and that its reappearance is directly linked to the increased role of private enterprise in the Chinese economy. It was well known that 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's first attempts to industrialize. The following …showed first 75 words of 582 total…

…showed last 75 words of 582 total…child labour as a way of reducing costs of production. Workers' daily quoted an employer as saying: "For every piece produced by an adult worker, I have to pay one dollar while I only have to pay a child 70 cents. Children's food and lodging costs are also cheaper.". (4) NOTES 1. Gail Hershatter: The Workers of Tianjin 1900~1949, pg 54. 1986 Stanford University Press. 2. Calum and Lijia MacLeod: "Never Seen Never Heard" in SCMP 12/07/00 3. Gongren Ribao (Workers' Daily) "Jia Shenfenzheng", 06/06/00