Sweat & Toil
This app documents child labor and forced labor worldwide.
Sweat & Toil: Child Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking Around the World is a comprehensive resource developed by the U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL) documenting child labor and forced labor worldwide. Data and research in this app are taken from USDOL’s three flagship reports: Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor; List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor; and List of Products Produced by Forced or Indentured Child Labor. This app fits these three information-packed reports the size of a phone book in the palm of your hand. With this app you can:• Check countries’ efforts to eliminate child labor• Find child labor data• Browse goods produced with child labor or forced labor• Review laws and ratifications• See what governments can to do end child labor• Browse USDOL’s projects to combat child labor and forced labor.Using this app can be a starting point to empower yourself with knowledge about child labor or forced labor around the world. Anyone with an interest in these issues – governments, businesses, academics, civil society, consumers – can use it as a source of information to begin asking questions, taking action, and demanding change.Updates to country child labor statistics and app landing page.
Sweat & Toil: Child Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking Around the World is a comprehensive resource developed by the U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL) documenting child labor and forced labor worldwide. Data and research in this app are taken from USDOL’s three flagship reports: Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor; List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor; and List of Products Produced by Forced or Indentured Child Labor. This app fits these three information-packed reports the size of a phone book in the palm of your hand. With this app you can:• Check countries’ efforts to eliminate child labor• Find child labor data• Browse goods produced with child labor or forced labor• Review laws and ratifications• See what governments can to do end child labor• Browse USDOL’s projects to combat child labor and forced labor.Using this app can be a starting point to empower yourself with knowledge about child labor or forced labor around the world. Anyone with an interest in these issues – governments, businesses, academics, civil society, consumers – can use it as a source of information to begin asking questions, taking action, and demanding change.Updates to country child labor statistics and app landing page.
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Comprehensive report, intuitive to use. Makes purchasing ethical products easier.
Informative
Very informative app with good breakdowns and ways to dig into country and product labor practices. Thanks US international labor department! Keep up the good work, and way to go bringing data to the people in a free and easy-to-consume format!
While this provides excellent information, it falls short of enabling the consumers to boycott the companies that purchase the products. I hope that continued efforts to add additional information will take place.
A great app for socially conscious people to use when shopping.
Wish it called out which companies partake in these unethical practices. Other than that, this app is extremely informative and helpful. Glad something like this exists. I also recommend the Buycott app alongside this one.
Love the concept behind the app BUT users need a list of products & companies for consumers. This app has at least started the process to help consumers. Without being able to follow products from start (planting/production) to finish (at market) it's still missing the mark. Not everything listed is a finished product. It can be purchased by another company and used to make a product that consumers then unknowingly purchase. This app would be great for businesses so they don't purchase items to use from these places. But that would mean we're trusting companies to care about a lot more than just their bottom line. Maybe it's just me...but I don't trust companies to do that. Consumers need a way to track the supply chain with company names - both those actively engaged in child labor, as well as companies that purchase from them. I want to know where that blueberry that is a result of child labor ends up! Did I eat it in my frozen blueberry pancakes this morning? Was it frozen and sold as frozen blueberries? Short of avoiding to buy anything that isn't grown or made right in front of you then you run the risk. We need an app that names names so we can guarantee we aren't financially supporting thrm unknowingly. Plus it can serve as a double edged sword. We would know what companies to engage in dialogue to get them to stop supporting child labor by not buying items from the places that engage in it!
Does just what you need it to. All the child labor info you need on your phone
It doesn't the U.S as a country with slaves. There is still human trafficking which is a type of slavery
If only it named company