Third-World Families at Work: Child Labor or Child Care?

Jonathan Stein, the new vice president of international contracts for Timothy & Thomas North America, shifted restlessly in his plane seat. During his two-month swing through Asia, he’d been on more planes than he could remember, many of them far more uncomfortable than this flight back to Boston. But he couldn’t forget the Pakistani girls who had looked no older than ten years old, sweeping the floor between the rows of sewing machines the women worked on.