miercuri, 3 decembrie 2014

How labour division affected youth and family

Since the switch to the capitalism in Romania, the juvenile crime it is on the rise. The parents are busy working and they don't spend enough time with their children.
But in remote tribes from Amazon, the juvenile crime is low.
The children are always in contact with their parents, either with their mother when they are small either with their father, when they are teenagers.
When they spend time with their parents they learn their skills to survive.
The skills can be easily taught.
In Amazon tribes there are not unskilled labourers who cannot earn a living, so an young man can hunt and fish from the day he becomes major.
A young man in a civilized society cannot earn his living from the day he became a major because either he doesn't have the skills, either he has no experience. He is more disadvantages than a hunter gatherer who fished since he was 10 and hunted since he was 16.
Our society works because the labour it is divided and we exchange goods. A peasant cannot smelt iron and work the fields (see Chinese Great Leap forward why). So who he has to concentrate in what he does best and the metallurgist in what he knows best and exchange potatoes for ploughs.
Because of specialisation and technological complexity of the jobs, a young man cannot be taught by his parents, he must leave them to go to study, to be influenced by the school and by his peers.

Parents must go also to their highly specialised jobs where they cannot bring their children to learn their jobs, The children cannot simply inherit the job of their parents and the parents must trade off  the time spent with children for the time spent working.

The children rely on state infrastructure to offer them the necessary surviving skills.
The educational system must match the requirement from the job market, the skills of the student with the budget. And the state has limited information about what the employer wants and the young can do. The labour market also cannot solve the problem because the young people don't know all the professions, and they could make wrong decisions.


I think in order to reduce juvenile crime, the parents must not work hard to support the family, and they must have cheaper goods for their children: better cheaper education, cheaper healthcare,
The business must have a say in vocational training of the young's, because they know what they want, and young must have the skills demanded by the labour market.
Periods of training in firms are necessary, to expose the youngs to the rality of the job and to diferent vocations.
The education system must be flexible to allow children to put their qualities and talents to a good use, and allow later a swift change of job for young people, if the conditions of the job market changed.



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