ilegal work

Cheap hand labor in the chestnuts shacks

Submitted by boliviaadmin on Wed, 04/16/2008 - 00:16.
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More than 3000 boys and girls work illegally and in precarious conditions; this adds to 3.500 adolescents that work in similar conditions and without labor rights in the collection and processing of chestnut. A big quantity of them present (decline )held back in school because of this work, others got sick with malaria or parasitism; but their worst ailment is to be held as cheap hand labor for the working market or the Amazonia north of Bolivia.