Children's Constitutional Rights in the Nordic Countries
Children's Constitutional Rights in the Nordic Countries

Author: Trude Haugli

Publisher: Brill Nijhoff

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789004382800

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This study explores whether and how enshrining children's rights in national constitutions improves implementation and enforcement of those rights by comparing Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish law.

The Constitutional Parent
The Constitutional Parent

Author: Jeffrey Shulman

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2014-07-01

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 0300206747

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In this bold and timely work, law professor Jeffrey Shulman argues that the United States Constitution does not protect a fundamental right to parent. Based on a rigorous reconsideration of the historical record, Shulman challenges the notion, held by academics and the general public alike, that parental rights have a long-standing legal pedigree. What is deeply rooted in our legal tradition and social conscience, Shulman demonstrates, is the idea that the state entrusts parents with custody of the child, and it does so only as long as parents meet their fiduciary duty to serve the developmental needs of the child. Shulman’s illuminating account of American legal history is of more than academic interest. If once again we treat parenting as a delegated responsibility—as a sacred trust, not a sacred right—we will not all reach the same legal prescriptions, but we might be more willing to consider how time-honored principles of family law can effectively accommodate the evolving interests of parent, child, and state.

Upon the Altar of Work
Upon the Altar of Work

Author: Betsy Wood

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2020-09-14

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 0252052323

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Rooted in the crisis over slavery, disagreements about child labor broke down along sectional lines between the North and South. For decades after emancipation, the child labor issue shaped how Northerners and Southerners defined fundamental concepts of American life such as work, freedom, the market, and the state. Betsy Wood examines the evolution of ideas about child labor and the on-the-ground politics of the issue against the backdrop of broad developments related to slavery and emancipation, industrial capitalism, moral and social reform, and American politics and religion. Wood explains how the decades-long battle over child labor created enduring political and ideological divisions within capitalist society that divided the gatekeepers of modernity from the cultural warriors who opposed them. Tracing the ideological origins and the politics of the child labor battle over the course of eighty years, this book tells the story of how child labor debates bequeathed an enduring legacy of sectionalist conflict to modern American capitalist society.

Child Labor in America
Child Labor in America

Author: Chaim M. Rosenberg

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2013-07-30

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 1476602727

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At the close of the 19th century, more than 2 million American children under age 16--some as young as 4 or 5--were employed on farms, in mills, canneries, factories, mines and offices, or selling newspapers and fruits and vegetables on the streets. The crusaders of the Progressive Era believed child labor was an evil that maimed the children, exploited the poor and suppressed adult wages. The child should be in school till age 16, they demanded, in order to become a good citizen. The battle for and against child labor was fought in the press as well as state and federal legislatures. Several federal efforts to ban child labor were struck down by the Supreme Court and an attempt to amend the Constitution to ban child labor failed to gain enough support. It took the Great Depression and New Deal legislation to pass the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (and receive the support of the Supreme Court). This history of American child labor details the extent to which children worked in various industries, the debate over health and social effects, and the long battle with agricultural and industrial interests to curtail the practice.

Child Labour
Child Labour

Author: Gopal Bhargava

Publisher: Gyan Publishing House

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9788178352008

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The book gives an overview of the nature and extent of the problem of child labour, and the consequences for the victims. These volumes discuss in details the Shocking scene of child labour, Reforms in child labour, Challenges of measuring child labour, Children and prostitution, Global response to child labour, Action against child labour, Educational strategies to eliminate child labour, Natural disaster and child labour. It also discusses sympathetically economic exploitation of children.