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levon we only did controls on forty eight miners so you're going to tell us all about it now. you know i don't want to talk about it. but i do want to talk about is the phenomenon of child labor in general in the city . you know about our activity in the region in general but i don't want to give statistic. why. because on the inspection level you don't have to explain to my minister who watched the interview why i've only done forty eight checks on miners. i mean in a city like naples forty eight checks last year that's hardly any and this year to have only been nineteen. asking which districts there are children working you know where. basically we know them all. of the zone around the one six seven roads also piano. so if you know them and it
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wasn't hard for me to find them what are you waiting for i have only two hundred days a year of inspection per inspector multiplied by one hundred inspectors that's only twenty thousand days of inspections per year bearing that in mind you can see i can't just focus on only one problem twenty thousand days a year in a region with twelve million inhabitants in naples the labor inspection agency doesn't have the means to make the fight against child labor it's priority. at the university of salerno research has been analyzing the economic policies that have been adopted since the beginning of the crisis according to him the government has let this happen fully aware of the cause. one of the ways in which the italian economy has responded to the crisis. has been to allow illegal work in the black market to increase. and our politicians in recent years
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have maintained this idea that a large part of the economy of the labor market. black market. and you must understand this work is not supply. and not an extra labor force. absolutely necessary for the survival of small to mid-sized italian companies. child labor has therefore become indispensable for the survival of crisis stricken italy. but at the other end of europe the crisis is biting too and everyone is doing their best to fight it in their own way. great britain prime minister david cameron has a radical take on social welfare and that's the interaction of the benefits system with the choices people make about having a family i already talked about how many people have to think very carefully about
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whether they can afford to have children and how many they can afford to have since the crisis the british government has had one priority budgetary cuts the order of the day to end the benefits culture everyone back to work gone are the days when doing nothing was a long option a choice under labor that someone was free to make to ponder whether to work or not to work well from now on the message is clear you must work and if you won't work with us to find that work you will lose your benefit. these british ministers seem convinced that lots of british people don't want to work and yet in the middle of the crisis there are people who don't think of anything else the trouble is sometimes their children.
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a middle sized town in the midlands. fifteen his mother was unemployed so for the past few months he's been doing the milk round with his grandfather the milk deliveries the tradition in england. do. get some extra money help from. my mates on weekends. milk round symbolise work opportunities for youngsters in england this job is permitted from the age of thirteen. but with a maximum of seventeen hours a week. michael works eight hours a day three nights a week clearly over the authorized limit. is quite hard. all the walls. and then my. sleep fall.
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as well. to keep up michael drinks for energy drinks a night however his salary is low. he is. about to throw. good money. it's. no very good morning there's no thing that never goes on strike. threats. it's good experience. none of my friends what. their parents can afford to keep giving them money to go if they want to what. i feel is pretty unfair on. siva you got to do it.
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michael started at nine pm he gets home just before dawn. you're going to sleep your votes are no sleep in your school. the later. time is five o'clock. two hours and i'll be waking up at school. between six i was at school and i'll quinoa again and then i will wake up and be able to get sleep. and and then. hopeful to sleep at school like i did last. night.
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michael's mother lisa has had a serious car accident she's been unable to walk without crutches ever since lee never wanted to give up work but she was made redundant last january and she lives off bentley four hundred fifty euros a month in this small house. we got finished and yeah same as last time. michael is in year eleven but at fifteen years of age he risks having to give up everything to take the pressure off his mom a former middle manager in a hospital lee used to make a good living no she's ashamed to send her son to work especially since she knows it's illegal street legal where. seth young there
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is legislation around of his there in the davis legislation around now has and set him around young people way and nice if the end themselves would probably be in trouble. if it was found where. there was hours i'm not sure what the options are or would be if your thirty's discovered that michael worked so much lee would risk having a benefits cut off losing custody of her son. i think i've always been dismissive of people not waking in and things before because i think people lie charlie. those choices out there perhaps now looking back i never recognized. very lucky their markets were to have been there
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and have to fear nothing and accept him and dealing with that. possibility. lee and michael live in yorkshire but the heart of traditional england the coal mines then the big chemicals industry used to guarantee the prosperity of local people today one third of the region's taxpayers penniless. bilton its people apparently wealthy. it's expensive houses and for sale signs in this market district on the outskirts of don't cast there's evidence of a crisis every twenty metres. this house isn't for
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sale but it is mortgaged and the shooter family fighting not to be evicted. this is joel father nigel and his partner kelly. a two hundred me to a big garden which are remnants of the past once upon a time nigel was a successful man. in twenty years he went from nothing to directing a flourishing small company. to crisis council dealt an entire lifetime's work when the banking crisis hit in two thousand and eight because of my experience at my age. twenty four months keep head down you know they'll all be over twenty four months you know i'm twenty. you think i'll do another year now what change is twenty twelve now nearly over you know what change so christmas he's comin you know in the next year and it's just that
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on a reporter's twitter. tends to. be in the. movie and nigel small gotten a sense of everyone pitches in. even his son joel. the salmonella spent. five years ago. when the recession album but as company went bust the name it would work and fall in. the fall at that to pay for everything. nigel has led to three employees go and joel has been working thirty hours
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a week ever since on top of school. seven pm after closing up the gun center the family is still busy the shooters regularly organize options extra work in order to help make ends meet. but joel is hesitating at fifteen should he carry on working for study full time it's not an easy choice especially when the decision could make things even tougher for his family i wanted to go to six. obviously if i went to six. and hot if a callee because obviously i'll be that five days a week and i don't think it's normal that people my age. the responsibility of things like this. which for my for my view it's quite a benefit for me because obviously being able to stop
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a young age it gets me gets me trained when i'm older and i'm doing it all myself. once again joel's putting his back into it it's midnight and he's still loading things into the car boot. thank you very much. not. to morrow morning joe's dance lessons at home state. i used to get ready five days. since you know twelve year old kids used to work you know a hundred years ago but not anymore but again. they used to do it years ago to support the farm ways and now we're back almost a full circle game but it's a way old.
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