Terms - Labor Flashcards
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What is bonded labour?
Form of labor or slavery in which someone must work to pay off a debt or other type of obligation.
What is child labour?
Work which deducts a child’s dignity, education, and potential and is harmful to their mental and physical health and development.
What is child/light work?
Work which is not dangerous for the child’s development, health, and safety and does not get in the way of schooling.
What is child work?
Regulated, safe work which a child can do and does not interfere with their schooling or development.
What is debt bondage?
Employment agreement where the worker starts off with a debt to pay, most of the time being impossible and trapping them in work.
What is development?
Process of growth or change.
What is a development indicator?
Measurable statistic showing development of social, economic, or environmental situations.
What is domestic child labour?
Children’s work in another person’s household.
What is exploitation?
Acting with injustice to gain from someone else’s work.
What is fair trade?
Trade between developed countries and producers in undeveloped countries where just prices are paid to the producers.
What is forced labour?
Employment against a person’s will from consequences like violence or harm done to them or their families.
What is hazardous work?
Work which is dangerous to their physical or mental health.
What are illicit activities?
Forbidden or unlawful actions that are counted as socially unacceptable often through rule breaking.
What is the ILO Forced Labor Convention (no.29)?
Work or service demanded of someone through threats and the person does not condone or is willing to do.
What is the International Labour Organization (ILO)?
Organization made to advocate for social justice and international human labor rights.
What is marginal economic activity?
Change in specific variable (cost/benefit) due to change in different variable (consumption/production).
What is non-domestic child labour?
Unregulated children’s work done outside of households.
What is organised beggary?
People who make a living from begging.
What is poverty?
State of being extremely poor with lack of resources.
What is extreme poverty?
UN recognized as earning less than $2.15/day with dangerous deprivation of basic needs such as water, food, money, education, shelter, sanitation, and information.
What is serfdom?
Condition in medieval Europe where a farmer owned an inherited piece of land and money from a boss or landlord.
What is servitude?
State of counting as a slave or fully subjecting to a more powerful person/power.
What is slavery (child)?
Enslavement or completely owning children for work.
What is a strike?
Refusal to work from a body of workers as a form of advocacy normally to get something from their boss.
