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Approaches to Reducing the Use of Forced or Child Labor Summary of a Workshop on Assessing Practice (2009) / Chapter Skim
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Pages 65-70

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From page 65...
... Dr. Berkowitz noted that the discussion focused in part on what it would mean to examine assumptions and have a logic model and a set of expectations about why certain outcomes would follow from certain activities.
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... Business practices are probably more effective as they address forced and child labor to the extent that the responsibility aspect of the business or orientation of the business is integrated with whatever else the business is doing on public policy terms, be it lobbying explicitly or decision making or the approach that the business takes to issues like corruption. He posited that there is an overlap in being able to identify, find, and fix forced and child labor if one is also identifying, finding, and fixing other core labor standards, freedom of association in particular.
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... Again, participants focused on the need to understand the context, as for example in this comment: "One is that I still have a fear that everything is going to be lumped together when you are looking at the criteria and that there is such a stark difference when you are looking at small-scale agriculture, family run, family operated versus a wage laborer in a manufacturing setting, and it's not at all the same. I think it is important to make that clear distinction and it might be that the criteria are different depending upon the situation." Another audience member commented on the point made by Kevin Bales regarding businesses' moral compass.
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