Jonathan Dimbleby's currently showing TV travelogue featured chilldren working in Bolivia. One was a boy who worked as a bus conductor after school. and JD interviewed a young girl who was the leader of the union for the child workers. So this isn't child exploitation - well not at its worst - but it did show how ingrained the idea of the "need" to work is, with an ?11 year old girl repeating it.
It's indoctrination, really, to tell children they need tyo work, when a moment's thought reveals that work is not a basic human need. It only seems like one becuse society witholds access to the resources that fulfil basic human needs from those that don't work, but could.
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A liberatianist view would say, that the job is offered to them as opposed to nothing. They don't have to take it. It is between earning low wages and underage against having no money, no trade and not doing anything constructive in an developing country.
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