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Working Teen Killed by Capitalism in Manitoba, Canada


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Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:42:00

On July 25th, 2008, a 15-year-old boy was killed at a construction site in Stony Mountain, Manitoba when he was literally buried by hot asphalt.

The teenager, who was part of a paving crew working on a parking lot, was buried by burning-hot asphalt that was dumped unexpectedly onto the boy.

 

Regardless of the legality of this tragedy, it is fundamental to cut to the origin of the problem.  Working people need their wages to live.  It is commonplace that workplace health and safety is compromised in the name of profits for companies.  This young boy was killed by the capitalist agenda to extract wealth from the labour of the workers.  What's more telling is that this example of a child labour fatality did not occur in India or China, rather in the extremely wealthy nation of Canada.  Child labour exists everywhere including Canada and as this news identifies, destroys lives.

 

The children that work in Canada and other countries are producing enormous wealth for their employers.  In most cases, the parents’ inabilities to make ends meet force the younger members of the families to seek out an income and become wage-labourers.  Capitalism relies on the labour power of the workers including the children.  While the immediate demands of ensuring safety and better wages for all workers alongside the eradication of all child labour are very important and must occur; the fundamental foundation of capitalism, the working for wages, hurts and kills both children and adults, must not only be recognized and questioned, but challenged and fought against in order to economically emancipate the working class.  




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