{"product_id":"rights-and-wrongs-of-childrens-work-rutgers-series-in-childhood-studies-rutgers-childhood-studies-9780813548883","title":"Rights and Wrongs of Childrens Work Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies Rutgers Childhood Studies","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e * Comparative Education Review *\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eRights and Wrongs of Children's Work\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e * Contemporary Sociology *\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e * Comparative Education Review *\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eRights and Wrongs of Children's Work\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e * Contemporary Sociology *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e List of Figures and Tables\u003cbr\u003e List of Acronyms\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. Raising Questions, Questioning the Answers\u003cbr\u003e \"When I was fired, I cried for two weeks\": How Intervention Went Wrong in Morocco's Garment Industry\u003cbr\u003e Whose Interests?\u003cbr\u003e Ways of Thinking\u003cbr\u003e Children's Rights\u003cbr\u003e Knowledge, Understanding, and Information\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2. Work That Children Do\u003cbr\u003e What Is Children's Work?\u003cbr\u003e What Children Say about Why They Work\u003cbr\u003e Concluding Comment\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. Children's Work in Historical and Comparative Perspective\u003cbr\u003e Child Labor and the Industrial Revolution in Britain around the Nineteenth Century\u003cbr\u003e Child Work, Education, and Interventions in Asia and Africa: Examples from Indonesia and Zimbabwe\u003cbr\u003e Children, Work, and Education in Communist Revolutions and Post-Communist Transitions\u003cbr\u003e International Standards and Trends in Interventions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. Child Work and Poverty: A Tangled Relationship\u003cbr\u003e What Is Poverty?\u003cbr\u003e Defining and Measuring Labor-Force Work\u003cbr\u003e Many Poor Children Do Not Work for Pay\u003cbr\u003e Labor Supply and Labor Demand\u003cbr\u003e General Patterns\u003cbr\u003e Children's Earnings: How Much, and Who Gets Them? \u003cbr\u003e Are Children Working Instead of Adults, or Undermining Adult Wages?\u003cbr\u003e Conditional Cash Transfers as Compensation for School Enrollment\u003cbr\u003e Is Child Work a Cultural Phenomenon Rather Than an Economic Necessity?\u003cbr\u003e The Effects of Child Work on Poverty Dynamics: How Learning Matters\u003cbr\u003e Does Poverty Cause Child Work?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5. Work in Children's Development\u003cbr\u003e Framing the Issue\u003cbr\u003e The Idea of Human \"Development in Social Science\u003cbr\u003e Concluding Observations\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6. Education, School, and Work\u003cbr\u003e \"Earn-and-Learn\": Tea Estates in Zimbabwe\u003cbr\u003e Children's Perceptions\u003cbr\u003e The Right to Education\u003cbr\u003e School as Work\u003cbr\u003e Problems with Schools\u003cbr\u003e Can School Mix with Work?\u003cbr\u003e Combining Labor-Force Work with School\u003cbr\u003e Learning through Work\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 7. Children Acting for Themselves\u003cbr\u003e Agency of Children\u003cbr\u003e Street Children\u003cbr\u003e Independent Migration\u003cbr\u003e Organizations of Working Children\u003cbr\u003e Child Participation in Making Decisions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 8. Assessing Harm against Benefits\u003cbr\u003e Child Domestic Work: Pros and Cons\u003cbr\u003e A Continuum of Harm and Benefit\u003cbr\u003e Intolerable Forms and Conditions of Work\u003cbr\u003e Assessing Hazardous Work\u003cbr\u003e Weighing Harm against Benefits\u003cbr\u003e A Note on Exploitation\u003cbr\u003e What Does This Mean in Practice?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 9. The Politics of International Intervention\u003cbr\u003e The Case of Child Garment Workers in Bangladesh: Tragedy or Scandal?\u003cbr\u003e Stitching Footballs in Sialkot\u003cbr\u003e What Should Be Learned from These Experiences?\u003cbr\u003e Promoting and Protecting the Interests of Children Who Work: A Case in Egypt\u003cbr\u003e Concluding Thoughts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 10. Policies and Interventions: What Should They Achieve, and How?\u003cbr\u003e Starting Points\u003cbr\u003e Principles\u003cbr\u003e Practice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MW - Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51742323278167,"sku":"9780813548883","price":105.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780813548883.jpg?v=1758384275","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/rights-and-wrongs-of-childrens-work-rutgers-series-in-childhood-studies-rutgers-childhood-studies-9780813548883","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}