Social Capital in agriculture

s-eco-costs

In True Cost Accounting (TCA), the antisocial labor conditions are dealt with the s-eco-costs, similar to S-LCA. It comprises:

minimum acceptable wage (the long term sustainable wage, or the short term decent living wage)
child labor
extreme poverty
excessive working hours
occupational health & safety

See Table 6.3 below

It must be mentioned here that there are differences between manufacturing (the main subject in S-LCA) and agriculture (the main subject in TCA, as dealt with in this webpage section):
(1) Child Labor, i.e. children are helping their parents in the fields, is regarded less severe than child labor in manufacturing plants, and become only harmful when they are deprived from education at schools
(2) Excessive Working Hours in the fields during harvesting is regarded less severe than in manufacturing plants (where it is structural during the whole year).

For descriptions, references, and explanation of the data and its background,
see the webpage of s-eco-costs.

Social issue	Performance Reference Point	S-Eco-Ccosts (€/hr)	notation
Minimum Acceptable Wage, long term sustainable	Sal = 5:79 (Int $ PPP/hr) is minimum acceptable	0.83(5.79-Sal) if Sal <5:79 0.0 if Sal >5:79	Sal = actual salary per hour (Int $ PPP/hr)
Minimum Acceptable Wage, short term = decent living wage	In a specific country: anough for a decent life for the workers family	'decent living wage' minus 'actual wage'	See calculation method: Data for Living Wages at bottom of this page
Child Labor in industry	Hr = 0 (hr/year) is maximum acceptable	35.71 (Hr/2240)	Hr = working hours per child per year (hr/year)
Child Labor in agriculture	Hr = 560 (hr/year) is maximum acceptable	17.85(Hr-560)/2240 if Hr > 560 0.0 if Hr < 560	Hr = working hours per child per year (hr/year)
Extreme Poverty and Slavery	Sal = 0.935 (Int $ PPP/hr) is minimum acceptable	35.71(0.935-Sal)/0.935 if Sal <0.935 0.0 if Sal >0.935	Sal = actual salary per hour (Int $ PPP/hr)
Excessive Working Hours	Hr = 2240 (hr/year) is maximum acceptable	35.71 (Hr-2240)/2240 only for Hr >2240	Hr = working hours per year (hr/year)
Ocupational Health & Safety	PA = 0 to aim at PM = 0 to aim at CA = 0 to aim at CM = 0 to aim at	35.71 [(CA x PA)+(CM x PM)]	PA = number of accidents and work related illness causing over 4 days’ absence per year/number of workers PM = number of work related death per year/number of workers CA = average DALY per case CM = average DALY per calamity

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