Here Are Over One Hundred Products Made From Child Or Slave Labor (GRAPHIC)

It's hard to believe, but true: Still today, many everyday products from around the globe are the result of child and slave labor, according to a 2011 report from the U.S. Department of Labor.

Now thanks to an infographic from the National Post, we can more clearly see the effects: All together, the infographic counts 130 product-types from 71 countries -- each the result of forced labor, child labor or some combination of the two.

Indeed, slave labor still exists within economic powerhouses like India, China and Brazil, for example. It's not just these two forms of labor that have come under fire lately. China has faced more wide-ranging criticism over its labor practices, especially after reports of poor working conditions and labor law violations at Foxconn, a factory that manufactures electronics for companies such as Apple and Microsoft.

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this graphic incorrectly categorized some forms of child labor as forced labor. National Post has updated the graphic.

See the National Post's infographic below to find out which countries are making products by exploiting slave labor:

Comments

[Morgantheaxe]

02:30 PM on 05/13/2012

I'm vexed why Apple gets mentioned in all these articles. The company that makes Apple products, in great part due to pressure from Apple, now pays more than the average Chinese worker makes. DIAMONDS on the other hand (pun intended) ladies are still mined in the most brutal and Inhumane conditions and we rarely if never hear companies like Jared, Zales, or Debeers singled out.

[Warren Yuill]

07:13 AM on 05/13/2012

Attention all Wal-Mart shoppers!
There are more slaves today than at the height of the roman empire.
Don't miss out on our blue-light specials.

[Steve Lives]

07:37 PM on 05/12/2012

People don't look hard enough at the system we live in. It's slavery folks. The only difference between physical slavery and economic slavery is that, in economic slavery, the slaves have to feed and house themselves. Now I know some people are going to protest this, but give it some thought. For the average person, once you punch that time card, you are in a dictatorship. How many millions go to a job every day that they hate. That is useless. That serves no social function. And if you don't work? Well you might as well be dead. Oh sure, the masters might throw you some welfare, but you can't live on that. That's just so the poor don't rebel. You are forced to work if you want to live decently. Forced work. Slavery. Love that money system......

[Timothy Gilmore]

06:46 PM on 05/12/2012

What about the slave labor market in the United States? What do you think the private prisons are but slave labor? How about government prisons? No slave labor there? If someone foreign does this, it's slave labor, but not if WE do the same things.

[Mike Mischak]

12:21 PM on 05/12/2012

It would appear that nothing is produced in the U.S. in Federal and State prisons. That is quite misleading! Look in our own yard before we go elsewhere.

[ckharris]

09:34 PM on 05/11/2012

as a consumer, this is totally useless . . .
(1) it is totally illegible . . .
(2) it tells me nothing about what to buy and what not to buy . . .
i hope that next time you can provide something more useful . . .
craig harris

[Jono Hirt]

02:03 PM on 05/12/2012

check out www.free2work.org if you would like to know what to buy / what not to buy.. grades companies on their supply chain transparency. Theres an iPhone & Android App too..

[moreta57]

03:51 PM on 05/12/2012

Thanks for the site, it does help

[EricArthurBlair]

09:32 PM on 05/11/2012

It's good enough for Newt Gingrich...

[June25]

04:35 PM on 05/11/2012

What's the point of clicking on the graph,the graph only gets smaller?

[Steve Lives]

07:15 PM on 05/12/2012

You will notice your cursor becomes a little + sign. Click on the graphic, then it becomes full size.

[sheila]

03:28 PM on 05/11/2012

You gotta name names or how can the buyer beware? are ALL textiles slave labor? ALL gold? ALL things made in these territories?

Come on, we are willing to boycott but you have to be more specific.

[Thomas A Gallagher]

02:20 PM on 05/11/2012

I would have said MADE BY rather than MADE FROM

[bromeando]

12:02 PM on 05/11/2012

Consumers...don't buy. It's the only way to combat this practice.

[Melinda Brunner]

11:59 AM on 05/11/2012

This is why we need Fair Trade, not free trade.

[sheila]

03:29 PM on 05/11/2012

totally agree!! fanned and faved!

[Jono Hirt]

02:06 PM on 05/12/2012

check out www.free2work.org.. I think we should support companies with good practices and help companies who are lax, get better.. its called "buycotting"..

[Melinda Brunner]

03:03 PM on 05/12/2012

Thanks, great site.

[Melinda Brunner]

11:59 AM on 05/11/2012

The short list would be what isn't?

[The Notorious PDF]

10:41 AM on 05/11/2012

Mitt Romney gave these countries a lot of business when he was at Bain.

[The Notorious PDF]

10:41 AM on 05/11/2012

And Republicans, with their so-called "right to work" legislation, won't stop until we catch with all of the countries on this list.