How are children raised in different cultures? What is the role of children in society? How are
families and communities structured around them? Now available in a revised edition, this …

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 …

Addressing the many forms of child labour in sub-Saharan Africa, presents a political
economy of the problem, examining such topics as variations of work between rural and …

Abstract Analysis of quantitative and qualitative data of a pro-poor sample of Ethiopian
children provides a more nuanced understanding of the role of children in the household …

African children are rarely associated with globalization and the commercialization of
childhood through consumerism, except for their participation in the global supply chain as …

International standards on children's work generally assume that work is incompatible with
schooling and hinders human capital formation. These standards are based on ideals which …

This article examines the interconnections among informality, child labor, and child
malnutrition in households at the bottom of the socioeconomic pyramid in urban Ecuador …

The purpose of this study was to explore children's everyday outdoor occupations in context.
A naturalistic observational approach was employed to record the observed outdoor …

This paper combines quantitative and qualitative analysis to develop a comprehensive and
nuanced understanding of children's work, in particular, the role of the household in …

This chapter looks at the participation of rural children and youth in the urban labour market
and focuses specifically on the first years of their migration. The young migrants' standing as …