Anthropology and Child Labour
Author: D. C. Nanjunda
Publisher: Mittal Publications
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9788183242783
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStudy conducted in Bangalore City of Karnataka, India.
Posts
The Anthropology of Childhood
Author: David F. Lancy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 549
ISBN-13: 1107072662
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEnriched with anecdotes from ethnography and the daily media, this revised edition examines family structure, reproduction, profiles of children's caretakers, their treatment at different ages, their play, work, schooling, and transition to adulthood. The result is a nuanced and credible picture of childhood in different cultures, past and present.
Children and Anthropology
Author: Helen B. Schwartzman
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2001-09-30
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study explores children through the eyes of an eclectic team of researchers from the United States to Viet Nam to Australia. Seen as an important contribution to research on children because it integrates the subfields of anthropology (including archaeology, biological anthropology, cultural and linguistic anthropology, and applied anthropology) to bear on an analysis of the conditions of children and youth in the 21st century.
The Anthropology of Labor Unions
Author: E. Paul Durrenberger
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Published: 2012-05-15
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 1607320436
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Anthropology of Labor Unions presents ethnographic data and analysis in eight case studies from several very diverse industries. It covers a wide range of topics, from the role of women and community in strikes to the importance of place in organization, and addresses global concerns with studies from Mexico and Malawu. Union-organized workplaces consistently afford workers higher wages and better pensions, benefits, and health coverage than their nonunion counterparts. In addition, women and minorities who belong to unions are more likely to receive higher wages and benefits than their nonunion peers. Given the economic advantages of union membership, one might expect to see higher rates of organization across industries, but labor affiliation is at an all-time low. What accounts for this discrepancy? The contributors in this volume provide a variety of perspectives on this paradox, including discussions of approaches to and findings on the histories, cultures, and practices of organized labor. They also address substantive issues such as race, class, gender, age, generation, ethnicity, health and safety concerns, corporate co-optation of unions, and the cultural context of union-management relationships. The first to bring together anthropological case studies of labor unions, this volume will appeal to cultural anthropologists, social scientists, sociologists, and those interested in labor studies and labor movements.
Children of Afghanistan
Author: Jennifer Heath
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2014-11-15
Total Pages: 389
ISBN-13: 0292759312
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The first comprehensive look at youth in a country attempting to rebuild itself after three decades of civil conflict, Children of Afghanistan relies on the research and fieldwork of twenty-one experts to cover an incredible range of topics. Focusing on the full scope of childhood, from birth through young adulthood, this edited volume examines a myriad of issues...Children of Afghanistan is the first volume that not only attempts to analyze the range of challenges facing Afghan children across class, gender, and region but also offers solutions to the problems they face. With nearly half of the population under the age of fifteen, the future of the country no double lies with its children. Those who seek peace for the region must find solutions to the host of crises that have led the United Nations to call Afghanistan 'the worst place on earth to be born.' The authors of Children of Afghanistan provide child-centered solutions to rebuilding the country's cultural, social, and economic institutions." -- Back cover.
Children's Lifeworlds
Author: Olga Nieuwenhuys
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-06-22
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 113486132X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKQuestions how class and kinship, gender and household organization, state ideology and education influence and conceal the lives of children in developing countries.
Anthropological Perspectives on Children as Helpers, Workers, Artisans, and Laborers
Author: David F. Lancy
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-12-12
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 113753351X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe study of childhood in academia has been dominated by a mono-cultural or WEIRD (Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic) perspective. Within the field of anthropology, however, a contrasting and more varied view is emerging. While the phenomenon of children as workers is ephemeral in WEIRD society and in the literature on child development, there is ample cross-cultural and historical evidence of children making vital contributions to the family economy. Children’s “labor” is of great interest to researchers, but widely treated as extra-cultural—an aberration that must be controlled. Work as a central component in children’s lives, development, and identity goes unappreciated. Anthropological Perspectives on Children as Helpers, Workers, Artisans, and Laborers aims to rectify that omission by surveying and synthesizing a robust corpus of material, with particular emphasis on two prominent themes: the processes involved in learning to work and the interaction between ontogeny and children’s roles as workers.
Who Pays for the Kids?
Author: Nancy Folbre
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1994-01-06
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 1134903952
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fresh look at how women largely carry the costs of caring for themselves, the children and other dependents, with an analysis of individual choices within interlocking structures of constraint based on gender, sex, age, nation, race and class.
Tobacco Capitalism
Author: Peter Benson
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 0691149208
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTells the story of the people who live and work on US tobacco farms at a time when the global tobacco industry is undergoing profound changes. This book explores the cultural and ethical ambiguities of tobacco farming and offers concrete recommendations for the tobacco-control movement in the United States and worldwide.
The World of Child Labor
Author: Hugh D Hindman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-12-18
Total Pages: 1557
ISBN-13: 1317453859
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The World of Child Labor" details both the current and historical state of child labor in each region of the world, focusing on its causes, consequences, and cures. Child labor remains a problem of immense social and economic proportions throughout the developing world, and there is a global movement underway to do away with it. Volume editor Hugh D. Hindman has assembled an international team of leading child labor scholars, researchers, policy-makers, and activists to provide a comprehensive reference with over 220 essays. This volume first provides a current global snapshot with overview essays on the dimensions of the problem and those institutions and organizations combating child labor. Thereafter the organization of the work is regional, covering developed, developing, and less developed regions of the world.The reference goes around the globe to document the contemporary and historical state of child labor within each major region (Africa, Latin and South America, North America, Europe, Middle East, Asia, and Oceania) including country-level accounts for nearly half of the world's nations. Country-level essays for more developed nations include historical material in addition to current issues in child labor. All country-level essays address specific facets of child labor problems, such as industries and occupations in which children commonly work, the national child welfare policy, occupational safety regulations, educational system, and laws, and often highlight significant initiatives against child labor.Current statistical data accompany most country-level essays that include ratifications to UN and ILO conventions, the Human Development Index, human capital indicators, economic indicators, and national child labor surveys conducted by the Statistical Information and Monitoring Program on Child Labor. "The World of Child Labor" is designed to be a self-contained, comprehensive reference for high school, college, and professional researchers. Maps, photos, figures, tables, references, and index are included.
