A Will of Their Own: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Working Children

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Bloomsbury Publishing, 29 feb 2008 - 335 pagine
This book shows how children's work can take on widely differing forms; and how it can both harm and benefit children. Differing in approach from most other work in the field, it endeavours to understand working children from their own perspective.
 

Sommario

Preface
Introduction
1 Working childrens movements in Africa Latin America and Asia1
an international stocktaking
subjectoriented and participative research
4 Childhood and work in nonWestern cultures
5 Working children in Europe loss or new perspectives of childhood?
6 Working children and adolescents in the USA juggling school and work
7 Work and play in the lives of children
towards a subjectoriented praxis
9 How working children resist exploitation and strive to share in decisions about their work
10 Ways to selfdetermined childrens work?
11 Thoughts on a subjectoriented theory of working children
Bibliography
Index
Copyright

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Informazioni sull'autore (2008)

Manfred Liebel is Professor of Sociology at the Technical University of Berlin. His main area is international and intercultural research on childhood and youth. He is staff-member of the TU-Centre for Global Education and International Cooperation and consultant of working children and youth movements in Latin America and Africa.

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