Child Labor The World's Biggest Perpetrators

Child Labor: The World’s Biggest Perpetrators Catherine Miller, Gabby Tomlinson, Becca Pineda, Pilar Garcia December 2014

Issues such as child labor can be considered social problems. Social problems are defined as “conditions that are evaluated as wrong, widespread, and changeable” (Loseke, 2003, p.7).
Social construction theory refers to the process of how social problems are made. First, social construction theories are presented to claims­makers who deem the theories as a social problem or not. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the social problem of child labor made by international claims­makers. How do news journalists in Sudan, Guatemala, Pakistan, and
Malawi, acting as claims­makers, socially construct the global social problem of child labor?
The data from this table highlights the type of change that each country uses to defeat the social problem of child labor. Obviously the most popular type of solution was to create new social services such as education and fostering services. These services help to set children on the a successful path that never intersects with child labor. Creating new administrative laws were also popular because more people are inclined to follow government rules and would view child labor as illegal. Lastly, each country strongly agreed that the view on child labor should be changed from tolerable to intolerable. In conclusion, each article proposed that the defeat of child labor will come through either communal or governmental services.
Analysis
All four of these countries are unique in many different ways, including the different parts of the world that they are located. They are all brought together on the common factor of high rates of child labor and the way journalists frames this social problem. News journalists can set up their articles the way in which they want their audiences to view and interpret their issue.
The way in which the government frames the social problem will also impact the way
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