I’d be interested in knowing your views on child labor and laws related to it.

I myself was thinking of writing about it sooner or later. So just wait and keep visiting the site.
At present I would like to mention that during the industrial revolution in Europe, when certain discoveries of vaccines made it possible for the children to bear the then prominent diseases while their parents were susceptible to those diseases and consequential deaths, only the opportunity of working and earning made it possible for those poor orphan children who obviously lost their parents to those diseases like malaria, small pox and chicken pox, plagues. In absence of that alternative to work and earn a living, those orphan children were sure to die.

I wrote about children right to work and earn whenever they feel like it some months ago in brief while discussing the issue of Education for all here– http://www.reasonforliberty.com/education/education-for-all.html

Please read it, further I wrote about Child molestation too here while discussing Age of Consent– http://www.reasonforliberty.com/ethics/age-of-consent-child-molestation-and-legal-system.html
Please check both of the articles.
By the way, when you talk about Child Labor, do you oppose anyone like Sachin tendulkar to devote him self for any professional line like say “Cricket” at the age of 16?
Or do you oppose someone like Saroj Khan who gave her first masterpiece at choreography for the bollywood song “Nigahein Milane ko Jee Chahataa hai” at age of 13? Or do you oppose Lata Mangeshkar who started singing professionally at age of 15 when her father died and there was nobody to earn a living for her family but her self, the eldest daughter of Dina Nath Mangeshkar, or Asha Bhonsle who started singing at 17?

May be you oppose Padmini Kolhapuri who starred as child lead in the movie Satyam Shivam Sundaram when she was 8, or Rishi Kapoor when he worked in the legendary movie Mera Naam Joker… Do you really oppose these child workers? Michael Jackson was also a child worker, so was Mozart and beethoven, when they were child.

Anyways, I will write about child labour and related laws in detail in future some day.

I’d be interested in knowing your views on child labor and laws related to it.

For the people who don’t understand Unpretentious Diva’s argument, this site might help clarify it

Are you sure you needed further clarifications over the issue discussed in article? Well, I have to restrain myself with wordlimits, yet if you think I needed to push further any particular issue in the article you may mention it, you may mention where the article is not properly clear and that may improve my further articles in future.

http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/MinimumWages.html

And now we need an article from you on why price controls are causing sugar shortages in Pakistan.

Although I have not dealt the issue of Sugar prices separately (that I am supposed to do in near future) yet I have discussed the issue of price control, price rise and shortage earlier.

You may check it out here–
http://www.reasonforliberty.com/anarcho-capitalism/reason-of-price-rise-and-consequences-of-price-control.html

Also, I discussed about the solution of Shortage too here–
http://www.reasonforliberty.com/anarcho-capitalism/cure-of-shortage-and-famine.html

Although the Issue of Sugar is enough important to discuss separately, but right now in India, farmers are already agitating against the government price scale for sugarcane. So I am waiting for that agitation of Farmers to get a little more grip, than I will write about it.

unskilled and part time workers who could not sell their labour in market due to incompetence or lack of skills and its quite understandable that they cry foul

rather it is foul against the skilled better workers, who certainly can (and do get) much higher wages in absence of any such ridiculous law.

Consider the case of labors in railways, it is controlled by government. No matter how good and strong labour you are, you will get Rs80/- per day.

What a robbery.

Even an unskilled meagre worker earns atleast Rs130/- in the labour market of any Indian city which is obviously not controlled by Indian government. And if the labour is skilled, with efficiency and specifi9c skills, he can simply demand as much as Rs250 per day/.

If Labour market of building and construction is controlled by Government, we all builders would be extremely happy. because than we can forcibly pay Only Rs80/- for all workers, no matters they are skilled or NOT. That will certainly increase our profit.

But alas! we Do Not want it, we do not want government to ruin our market. why?

because if we are forced to exploit our own workers because of ridiculousness of Government law of minimum wage, we will see that not a single worker is working with pleasure and interest, if he won’t be making enough profit, enough salary, he won’t devote hs skills perfectly for us too. and that will decrease the quality of our work.

Minimum wage law is despicable in all cases.

But again – if demand for product is varaible then manufacturer can always – add the extra cost as price for the product to be sold and need not carry out lay-offs so thats another way they can tackle unemployement issue.

I already mentioned it poor kid, they cannot.

after a certain limit, no producer, no seller, no service provider can raise the price, because if do so, the buyer prefers to NOT to buy that product.

If you increase the school fees, students won’t come to study. Who will suffer? The poor parents, who will find it impossible to teach their kids.

If you increase cost of Gas, people will stop using LPG and will burn trees and shrubs for preparing their food, its cheaper. If you increase cost of wheat, people will prefer eating Jowar, bajra, or rice. To make high profits, you need to reduce your prices as low as possible, because lower prices increase demand, and increased consumers increase profits.

Wrong laws always causes wrong and any law against Liberty of Individual and liberty of market as whole is certainly wrong, immoral and unjustified.

By the way, only in government controlled market there can be surplus of labour. On the other hand labour is extremely scarce resource on earth where the need and desire of man are unlimited. May be India is suffering surplus of teachers that is why so many kids do not get a school and if they get a school, they do not get teachers.

Government itself is MISUTILIZATIOn of essential and scarce resources.

Nothing is perfect, but the system most near to perfection is FREE MARKET, freedom of everyone.

When government interferes, things go awry, forcing wastage of resources.

India never needed minimum wage law, but government always needed to force it on public and make them further poor, more unemployed, more struggling the shortage of everything.

In a free market, the freedom provides the necessary idea of what should be the appropriate wage for a worker. How can government decide it?

Government has NO WAY TO DECIDE it.

By interfering free market, government destroys the verty important processes through which prices and wages are decided. The way to decide is the MUTUAL beneficial agreement.

One will work for that who will give him the maximum wage for his standard of work.
One will give work for that who will provide him the best work at least price.

This freedom of employer and emplkoyee decides the exact wage without
any wastage. government when intervenes, no one can decide what is
profitable for them but their own self, and they are not allowed to decide for their own profit, and that is reason of wastage.
By interfering free market, government destroys the verty important processes through which prices and wages are decided. The way to decide is the MUTUAL beneficial agreement.

One will work for that who will give him the maximum wage for his standard of work.

One will give work for that who will provide him the best work at least price.

This freedom of employer and emplkoyee decides the exact wage without any wastage. government when intervenes, none can decide what is profitable for them, and that is reason of wastage.

How do you think wage market will improve in India?

How can government improve it? By forcing poor people to suffer unemployment starvation and death?

To improve the wage market/labour market or any other market, the most bimportant step is, to let that market be FREE of government interference and let the people, the producers, the consumers, the dealers, the employers the employees to fetch and agree for their own mutually beneficial prices/wages/profits.

That is the only way. Once government interferes, market looses its strength to show the profitable choices and proper prices/wages. and hence wastage occurs, poverty occurs, shortage occurs.