Author : Beatrice Hungerland,Manfred Liebel,Anne Wihstutz,Brian Milne
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007-02-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1846426073
Working to Be Someone by Beatrice Hungerland,Manfred Liebel,Anne Wihstutz,Brian Milne Pdf
Working to be Someone presents an overview of worldwide research on working children that considers children's own views of employment in favour of adult-constructed arguments about child work. This book brings together contributions by internationally renowned researchers who are committed to a 'subject-orientated' approach as well as views and observations of activists from organizations that either work with child labour or support working children's movements. Chapters examine the traditionally widespread care and domestic work carried out by children, discuss localized explorations of working children - for example in Morocco, India and Europe - as well as consider work as a means for children to contribute economically to the family. Contributors also discuss children's movements and organizations in Africa, Asia and South America that claim work as a necessity for survival as well as a key to children's own agency and citizenship. This book is a key text for both academics and social work practitioners that encourages re-evaluation of the notion of childhood and understands the complex phenomenon of working children.