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Trade Review"Bourdillon and colleagues analyze the problems, benefits, appropriate interventions, culture, and policies related to children's work with a respect for the individual rights of the children involved. Recommended."
* Choice *
"While this book is not the first to challenge conventional thinking on children's work, it is comprehensive in its analysis and bold in its call for change."
* Comparative Education Review *
"In
Rights and Wrongs of Children's Work, the authors provide us with a definitive and balanced examination of why it is that the majority of the world's children's work for a living. This is an excellent book, which has clearly been designed to engage both the novice and expert. The clarity of reflective thought in this book is particularly impressive and reassuring."
* Contemporary Sociology *
"Bourdillon and colleagues analyze the problems, benefits, appropriate interventions, culture, and policies related to children's work with a respect for the individual rights of the children involved. Recommended."
* Choice *
"While this book is not the first to challenge conventional thinking on children's work, it is comprehensive in its analysis and bold in its call for change."
* Comparative Education Review *
"In
Rights and Wrongs of Children's Work, the authors provide us with a definitive and balanced examination of why it is that the majority of the world's children's work for a living. This is an excellent book, which has clearly been designed to engage both the novice and expert. The clarity of reflective thought in this book is particularly impressive and reassuring."
* Contemporary Sociology *
Table of Contents 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
