The World of Child Labor

The World of Child Labor

Author: Hugh D Hindman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-12-18

Total Pages: 1557

ISBN-13: 1317453859

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"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.


Child Labour in a Globalized World

Child Labour in a Globalized World

Author: Luca Nogler

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-15

Total Pages: 492

ISBN-13: 1317168011

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This volume examines the legal dimension of the ILO's action in the field of Child Labour. The authors investigate the implementation of the relevant legal instruments and assess the effectiveness of the ILO supervisory system. All relevant instruments are considered while particular attention is given to Convention 182 on the elimination of the worst forms of child labour. Child Labour in a Globalized World describes the ILO's activities concerning the eradication of child labour whilst assessing and evaluating the effectiveness of the relevant legal framework and functioning of the supervisory system. This book contextualizes the issue of the eradication of the worst forms of child labour in the recent doctrinal debate on the nature of labour standards and the transformation of the ILO. This important work will be a valuable resource for academics, researchers and policy-makers with an interest in labour law, international law, and children's rights.


Child Labour in Global Society

Child Labour in Global Society

Author: Paul Close

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2014-05-30

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 1783507802

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This book presents a novel study of children's compulsory productive educational labour in modern and modernizing societies under globalization, and the implications for such matters as children's everyday lives, relationships and rights, international legal instruments, relevant analytical notions (including 'slavery'), and sociological analysis.


World Report on Child Labour

World Report on Child Labour

Author: International Labour Office

Publisher: International Labor Office

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13:

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How can we reduce child labor in the unfavorable circumstances of a global economic slowdown? This new flagship report, the first in a series to be published annually by the ILO's International Program on the Elimination of Child Labor, brings together research on child labor and social protection, identifying policies that are designed to achieve multiple social goals. This report includes analyses of national child labor trends based on the latest survey data, discussions of the role of poverty and economic shocks in rendering households vulnerable to child labor, and detailed consideration of income transfers, public employment programs, social insurance, and microcredit initiatives as they have been implemented around the world. The report distills a broad range of research in economic and social policy and should be of interest to those looking for ways to combat poverty in the present and reduce its burden on the next generation.


The Economics of Child Labour in the Era of Globalization

The Economics of Child Labour in the Era of Globalization

Author: Sarbajit Chaudhuri

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-10-14

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 131539748X

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Children in poor countries are subjected to exploitation characterized by low wages and long hours of work, as well as by unclean, unhygienic and unsafe working and living conditions, and, more importantly, by deprivation from education, all of which hampers their physical and mental development. Child labour is a complex issue, and clearly it has no simple solution. This book sheds some understanding of its root causes. The book attempts to delve into many of the important theoretical aspects of child labour and suggests policies that could indeed be useful in dealing with the problem under diverse situations using alternative multisector general equilibrium models.


Globalisation, Development, and Child Rights

Globalisation, Development, and Child Rights

Author: Kailash Satyarthi

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13:

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Globalization And Structural Adjustment Programmes Not Only Reinforces Greater Integration In The World Economy But Is A Veneration Of The Market As The Only Mediator Of Efficiency And Growth. It Has Resulted In Renunciation Of The State Responsibility To


Child Labour in India

Child Labour in India

Author: Gurchathen S. Sanghera

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 9780199087099

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India has the largest number of child labourers in the world, and has been the subject of intense media and political campaigns in the North aimed at addressing the abuse of children's rights. This book explores these rights as a site of power and reveals how the rights discourse has been used by international actors, national elites and local NGOs in the child labour debate in India.