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Rights and Wrongs
of Children's Work
Price: $26.95
Authors:
Michael
Bourdillon, Deborah Levison, William Myers, and Ben White
Subject: Childhood
Studies, Sociology,
Criminology
Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-4889-0
Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4888-3
Pages:
320 pages
Publication Date: December 2010
Series:
Rutgers
Series in Childhood Studies
Description:
Rights and Wrongs of
Children’s Work, 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.
This groundbreaking book considers international policies governing
children’s work and the complexity of assessing the various effects of
their work. The authors question current child labor policies and
interventions, which, even though pursued with the best intentions, too
often fail to protect children against harm or promote their access to
education and other opportunities for decent futures. They argue for
the need to re-think the assumptions that underlie current policies on
the basis of empirical evidence, and they recommend new approaches to
advance working children’s well-being and guarantee their human rights.
Rights and
Wrongs of Children’s Work 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.
About the Authors:
MICHAEL F. C. BOURDILLON is a professor emeritus in the
department of sociology at the University of Zimbabwe. He has worked
with street children in Harare, and with working children regionally
and internationally, and is the author and editor of several books
including Earning a Life: Working
Children in Zimbabwe.
DEBORAH LEVISON, an economist and demographer, is a professor at the
University of Minnesota’s Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public
Affairs. Much of her research focuses on third world children’s work
and schooling in the context of the household.
WILLIAM E. MYERS is retired from the United Nations, where he addressed
child work issues with UNICEF and the ILO. He is currently an associate
in the department of human and community development at the University
of California, Davis.
BEN WHITE is a professor of rural sociology at the Institute of Social
Studies, The Hague, and a professor in social sciences at the
University of Amsterdam. His books and edited volumes include Child Labour: Policy Options.
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