Research Paper Outline
Name ________Good Students Example___________
Period_________
I. Introduction
A. “Every time a person buys a garden stone, handmade rug or carpet, or an
embroidered T-shirt, it was probably made by child laborers” (Bahree).
B. Children all across the globe are forced to work under harsh conditions for long
hours and little to no pay.
i. The Labor Department reports that child employment occurs in 70
countries (MacDonald).
ii. The Asia-Pacific region contains the most child laborers, followed by the
sub-Saharan Africa region (Bahree).
C. Companies and the United States Government debate whether or not products
made by child labor or in sweatshops should be sold to American consumers.
i. It is very difficult to police imports of companies to decide whether they
have been produced in sweatshops or by child labor (Bahree).
ii. Child labor and sweatshops are a fact of the global market, and will be as
long as Europeans and Americans require inexpensive merchandise
(Bahree).
D: Products made in sweatshops or by child labor must be prohibited from
being sold in the United States due to the inhumane working circumstances
forced upon the children of this industry.
II. Child labor is a problem that is a rights abuse to children.
A. Children as young as four years old are taken from their home to become workers
against their will (“Forced Child Labor”).
i. These children are often subject to beatings and starvation from their
employer (“Forced Child Labor”).
ii. One can only imagine the news headlines in America, if the United States
employed four-year-olds, starved them and forced the children to work
long hours in horrid conditions. [This is an example of the student’s own
ideas/commentary. Don’t use parenthetical citations with your own
ideas]
B. Children are either employed by the governing body of the nation forcibly, or the
government may disregard companies that do utilize children by force
(MacDonald).
i. The parents of the children are often promised that their child will receive
an education or job training (“Forced Child Labor”).
ii. It is fair to assume, however, based on the unlawful manner in which
children are taken from their homes, that the majority of the children and
families receive little to no compensation for their employment.
III. Sweatshops are inhumane for a working environment.
A. Both children and adults across the world work long hours for little pay in filthy
and dangerous factories and stores.
Ms. Salona
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