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Rights and Wrongs of Children's Work, a groundbreaking book authored by an interdisciplinary team of experts, incorporates recent theoretical advances and experiences to explore the place of labor in children's lives and development. It condemns the exploitation and abuse of child workers and supports the right of all children to the best quality, free education that society can afford. At the same time, the authors recognize the value, and sometimes the necessity, of work in growing up, and the reality that a "workless" childhood, without responsibilities, is not good preparation for adult life in any environment.…mehr
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Rights and Wrongs of Children's Work, a groundbreaking book authored by an interdisciplinary team of experts, incorporates recent theoretical advances and experiences to explore the place of labor in children's lives and development. It condemns the exploitation and abuse of child workers and supports the right of all children to the best quality, free education that society can afford. At the same time, the authors recognize the value, and sometimes the necessity, of work in growing up, and the reality that a "workless" childhood, without responsibilities, is not good preparation for adult life in any environment.
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- Verlag: Rutgers University Press
- None edition
- Seitenzahl: 320
- Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2010
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 229mm x 154mm x 23mm
- Gewicht: 476g
- ISBN-13: 9780813548890
- ISBN-10: 0813548896
- Artikelnr.: 30693704
- Herstellerkennzeichnung
- Libri GmbH
- Europaallee 1
- 36244 Bad Hersfeld
- 06621 890
- Verlag: Rutgers University Press
- None edition
- Seitenzahl: 320
- Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2010
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 229mm x 154mm x 23mm
- Gewicht: 476g
- ISBN-13: 9780813548890
- ISBN-10: 0813548896
- Artikelnr.: 30693704
- Herstellerkennzeichnung
- Libri GmbH
- Europaallee 1
- 36244 Bad Hersfeld
- 06621 890
Bourdillon, Michael
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Figures and Tables
List of Acronyms
1. Raising Questions, Questioning the Answers
"When I was fired, I cried for two weeks": How Intervention Went Wrong in
Morocco's Garment Industry
Whose Interests?
Ways of Thinking
Children's Rights
Knowledge, Understanding, and Information
2. Work That Children Do
What Is Children's Work?
What Children Say about Why They Work
Concluding Comment
3. Children's Work in Historical and Comparative Perspective
Child Labor and the Industrial Revolution in Britain around the Nineteenth
Century
Child Work, Education, and Interventions in Asia and Africa: Examples from
Indonesia and Zimbabwe
Children, Work, and Education in Communist Revolutions and Post-Communist
Transitions
International Standards and Trends in Interventions
4. Child Work and Poverty: A Tangled Relationship
What Is Poverty?
Defining and Measuring Labor-Force Work
Many Poor Children Do Not Work for Pay
Labor Supply and Labor Demand
General Patterns
Children's Earnings: How Much, and Who Gets Them?
Are Children Working Instead of Adults, or Undermining Adult Wages?
Conditional Cash Transfers as Compensation for School Enrollment
Is Child Work a Cultural Phenomenon Rather Than an Economic Necessity?
The Effects of Child Work on Poverty Dynamics: How Learning Matters
Does Poverty Cause Child Work?
5. Work in Children's Development
Framing the Issue
The Idea of Human "Development in Social Science
Concluding Observations
6. Education, School, and Work
"Earn-and-Learn": Tea Estates in Zimbabwe
Children's Perceptions
The Right to Education
School as Work
Problems with Schools
Can School Mix with Work?
Combining Labor-Force Work with School
Learning through Work
Conclusion
7. Children Acting for Themselves
Agency of Children
Street Children
Independent Migration
Organizations of Working Children
Child Participation in Making Decisions
8. Assessing Harm against Benefits
Child Domestic Work: Pros and Cons
A Continuum of Harm and Benefit
Intolerable Forms and Conditions of Work
Assessing Hazardous Work
Weighing Harm against Benefits
A Note on Exploitation
What Does This Mean in Practice?
9. The Politics of International Intervention
The Case of Child Garment Workers in Bangladesh: Tragedy or Scandal?
Stitching Footballs in Sialkot
What Should Be Learned from These Experiences?
Promoting and Protecting the Interests of Children Who Work: A Case in
Egypt
Concluding Thoughts
10. Policies and Interventions: What Should They Achieve, and How?
Starting Points
Principles
Practice
Notes
References
Index
Acknowledgments
List of Figures and Tables
List of Acronyms
1. Raising Questions, Questioning the Answers
"When I was fired, I cried for two weeks": How Intervention Went Wrong in
Morocco's Garment Industry
Whose Interests?
Ways of Thinking
Children's Rights
Knowledge, Understanding, and Information
2. Work That Children Do
What Is Children's Work?
What Children Say about Why They Work
Concluding Comment
3. Children's Work in Historical and Comparative Perspective
Child Labor and the Industrial Revolution in Britain around the Nineteenth
Century
Child Work, Education, and Interventions in Asia and Africa: Examples from
Indonesia and Zimbabwe
Children, Work, and Education in Communist Revolutions and Post-Communist
Transitions
International Standards and Trends in Interventions
4. Child Work and Poverty: A Tangled Relationship
What Is Poverty?
Defining and Measuring Labor-Force Work
Many Poor Children Do Not Work for Pay
Labor Supply and Labor Demand
General Patterns
Children's Earnings: How Much, and Who Gets Them?
Are Children Working Instead of Adults, or Undermining Adult Wages?
Conditional Cash Transfers as Compensation for School Enrollment
Is Child Work a Cultural Phenomenon Rather Than an Economic Necessity?
The Effects of Child Work on Poverty Dynamics: How Learning Matters
Does Poverty Cause Child Work?
5. Work in Children's Development
Framing the Issue
The Idea of Human "Development in Social Science
Concluding Observations
6. Education, School, and Work
"Earn-and-Learn": Tea Estates in Zimbabwe
Children's Perceptions
The Right to Education
School as Work
Problems with Schools
Can School Mix with Work?
Combining Labor-Force Work with School
Learning through Work
Conclusion
7. Children Acting for Themselves
Agency of Children
Street Children
Independent Migration
Organizations of Working Children
Child Participation in Making Decisions
8. Assessing Harm against Benefits
Child Domestic Work: Pros and Cons
A Continuum of Harm and Benefit
Intolerable Forms and Conditions of Work
Assessing Hazardous Work
Weighing Harm against Benefits
A Note on Exploitation
What Does This Mean in Practice?
9. The Politics of International Intervention
The Case of Child Garment Workers in Bangladesh: Tragedy or Scandal?
Stitching Footballs in Sialkot
What Should Be Learned from These Experiences?
Promoting and Protecting the Interests of Children Who Work: A Case in
Egypt
Concluding Thoughts
10. Policies and Interventions: What Should They Achieve, and How?
Starting Points
Principles
Practice
Notes
References
Index
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Figures and Tables
List of Acronyms
1. Raising Questions, Questioning the Answers
"When I was fired, I cried for two weeks": How Intervention Went Wrong in
Morocco's Garment Industry
Whose Interests?
Ways of Thinking
Children's Rights
Knowledge, Understanding, and Information
2. Work That Children Do
What Is Children's Work?
What Children Say about Why They Work
Concluding Comment
3. Children's Work in Historical and Comparative Perspective
Child Labor and the Industrial Revolution in Britain around the Nineteenth
Century
Child Work, Education, and Interventions in Asia and Africa: Examples from
Indonesia and Zimbabwe
Children, Work, and Education in Communist Revolutions and Post-Communist
Transitions
International Standards and Trends in Interventions
4. Child Work and Poverty: A Tangled Relationship
What Is Poverty?
Defining and Measuring Labor-Force Work
Many Poor Children Do Not Work for Pay
Labor Supply and Labor Demand
General Patterns
Children's Earnings: How Much, and Who Gets Them?
Are Children Working Instead of Adults, or Undermining Adult Wages?
Conditional Cash Transfers as Compensation for School Enrollment
Is Child Work a Cultural Phenomenon Rather Than an Economic Necessity?
The Effects of Child Work on Poverty Dynamics: How Learning Matters
Does Poverty Cause Child Work?
5. Work in Children's Development
Framing the Issue
The Idea of Human "Development in Social Science
Concluding Observations
6. Education, School, and Work
"Earn-and-Learn": Tea Estates in Zimbabwe
Children's Perceptions
The Right to Education
School as Work
Problems with Schools
Can School Mix with Work?
Combining Labor-Force Work with School
Learning through Work
Conclusion
7. Children Acting for Themselves
Agency of Children
Street Children
Independent Migration
Organizations of Working Children
Child Participation in Making Decisions
8. Assessing Harm against Benefits
Child Domestic Work: Pros and Cons
A Continuum of Harm and Benefit
Intolerable Forms and Conditions of Work
Assessing Hazardous Work
Weighing Harm against Benefits
A Note on Exploitation
What Does This Mean in Practice?
9. The Politics of International Intervention
The Case of Child Garment Workers in Bangladesh: Tragedy or Scandal?
Stitching Footballs in Sialkot
What Should Be Learned from These Experiences?
Promoting and Protecting the Interests of Children Who Work: A Case in
Egypt
Concluding Thoughts
10. Policies and Interventions: What Should They Achieve, and How?
Starting Points
Principles
Practice
Notes
References
Index
Acknowledgments
List of Figures and Tables
List of Acronyms
1. Raising Questions, Questioning the Answers
"When I was fired, I cried for two weeks": How Intervention Went Wrong in
Morocco's Garment Industry
Whose Interests?
Ways of Thinking
Children's Rights
Knowledge, Understanding, and Information
2. Work That Children Do
What Is Children's Work?
What Children Say about Why They Work
Concluding Comment
3. Children's Work in Historical and Comparative Perspective
Child Labor and the Industrial Revolution in Britain around the Nineteenth
Century
Child Work, Education, and Interventions in Asia and Africa: Examples from
Indonesia and Zimbabwe
Children, Work, and Education in Communist Revolutions and Post-Communist
Transitions
International Standards and Trends in Interventions
4. Child Work and Poverty: A Tangled Relationship
What Is Poverty?
Defining and Measuring Labor-Force Work
Many Poor Children Do Not Work for Pay
Labor Supply and Labor Demand
General Patterns
Children's Earnings: How Much, and Who Gets Them?
Are Children Working Instead of Adults, or Undermining Adult Wages?
Conditional Cash Transfers as Compensation for School Enrollment
Is Child Work a Cultural Phenomenon Rather Than an Economic Necessity?
The Effects of Child Work on Poverty Dynamics: How Learning Matters
Does Poverty Cause Child Work?
5. Work in Children's Development
Framing the Issue
The Idea of Human "Development in Social Science
Concluding Observations
6. Education, School, and Work
"Earn-and-Learn": Tea Estates in Zimbabwe
Children's Perceptions
The Right to Education
School as Work
Problems with Schools
Can School Mix with Work?
Combining Labor-Force Work with School
Learning through Work
Conclusion
7. Children Acting for Themselves
Agency of Children
Street Children
Independent Migration
Organizations of Working Children
Child Participation in Making Decisions
8. Assessing Harm against Benefits
Child Domestic Work: Pros and Cons
A Continuum of Harm and Benefit
Intolerable Forms and Conditions of Work
Assessing Hazardous Work
Weighing Harm against Benefits
A Note on Exploitation
What Does This Mean in Practice?
9. The Politics of International Intervention
The Case of Child Garment Workers in Bangladesh: Tragedy or Scandal?
Stitching Footballs in Sialkot
What Should Be Learned from These Experiences?
Promoting and Protecting the Interests of Children Who Work: A Case in
Egypt
Concluding Thoughts
10. Policies and Interventions: What Should They Achieve, and How?
Starting Points
Principles
Practice
Notes
References
Index