From child labour to working children's movements

Authors
Publication date 2009
Host editors
  • J. Qvortrup
  • W.A. Corsaro
  • M.S. Honig
Book title The Palgrave handbook of childhood studies
ISBN
  • 9780230532601
Pages (from-to) 289-300
Number of pages 452
Publisher Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
Organisations
  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) - Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR)
Abstract In this chapter I first argue that working children's movements are the logical outcome of a global economic order that has made attempts at regulating child labour through legal means obsolete. Second, I highlight why working children's movements do not want their work to be abolished. Finally, I discuss the claims put forward by working children's movements and tease out critical questions for further research on childhood in today's globalized world.
Document type Chapter
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