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Title Rights and wrongs of children's work / Michael Bourdillon [and others]
Published New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 284 pages)
Series The Rutgers series in childhood studies
Rutgers series in childhood studies.
Contents Raising questions, questioning the answers -- Work that children do -- Children's work in historical and comparative perspective -- Child work and poverty : a tangled relationship -- Work in children's development -- Education, school, and work -- Children acting for themselves -- Assessing harm against benefits -- The politics of international intervention -- Policies and interventions : what should they achieve, and how?
Summary Rights and Wrongs of Children's Work, a groundbreaking book 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. It 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Child labor.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
Child labor
Kinderarbeit
Entwicklungsländer
Form Electronic book
Author Bourdillon, M. F. C.
LC no. 2010003039
ISBN 9780813550213
0813550211
1283864274
9781283864275