Global Perspectives on Rural Childhood and Youth

Global Perspectives on Rural Childhood and Youth

Author: Ruth Panelli

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2007-11-21

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 1134153899

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This collection of international research and collaborative theoretical innovation examines the socio-cultural contexts and negotiations that young people face when growing up in rural settings across the world. This book is strikingly different to a standard edited book of loosely linked, but basically independent, chapters. In this case, the book presents both thematically organised case studies and co-authored commentaries that integrate and advance current understandings and debates about rural childhood and youth.


Risk, Protection, Provision and Policy

Risk, Protection, Provision and Policy

Author: Claire Freeman

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-04-14

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789812870346

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Geographies of children and young people is a rapidly emerging sub-discipline within human geography. There is now a critical mass of established academic work, key names within academia, growing numbers of graduate students and expanding numbers of university level taught courses. There are also professional training programmes at national scales and in international contexts that work specifically with children and young people. In addition to a productive journal of Children’s Geographies, there’s a range of monographs, textbooks and edited collections focusing on children and young people published by all the major academic presses then there is a substantive body of work on younger people within human geography and active authors and researchers working within international contexts to warrant a specific Major Reference Work on children’s and young people’s geographies. The volumes and sections are structured by themes, which then reflect the broader geographical locations of the research.


Workers in the Shadows

Workers in the Shadows

Author: Bede Sheppard

Publisher: Human Rights Watch

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 79

ISBN-13: 1564324303

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Methodology -- The abuse and exploitation of child domestic workers : a continuing situation -- Eight enduring myths -- Continuing failure of the Indonesian government to protect and prevent exploitation of child domestic workers -- National and local governments' international legal obligations -- Recommendations.This report documents how hundreds of thousands of girls in Indonesia, some as young as 11, are employed as domestic workers in other people's households, performing tasks such as cooking, cleaning, laundry, and child care. Most girls interviewed for the report worked 14 to 18 hours a day, seven days a week, with no day off. Almost all are grossly underpaid, and some get no salary at all. In the worst cases, girls reported being physically, psychologically, and sexually abused.


Global Ideologies Surrounding Children's Rights and Social Justice

Global Ideologies Surrounding Children's Rights and Social Justice

Author: Tshabangu, Icarbord

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2017-06-19

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 1522525793

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Social rights are a pivotal concern for all of society, including today’s population of children. The study of the rights, or lack thereof, that children have must be undertaken to ensure that future generations are thriving members of their communities. Global Ideologies Surrounding Children's Rights and Social Justice highlights the trials and tribulations that children have often had to overcome to be considered true citizens of their communities. Featuring comprehensive coverage on a wide range of applicable topics such as child abuse, socio-economic rights, social injustice, and welfare issues, this is a critical reference source for educators, academicians, students, and researchers interested in studying new approaches for the social advancement of children.


Parenting and Work in Poland

Parenting and Work in Poland

Author: Katarzyna Suwada

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 115

ISBN-13: 3030663035

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The open access book provides a critical account of parenthood in Polish society. It uses a qualitative perspective to show how mothers and fathers engage with parenthood and also function in the labour market. Parenting in contemporary Poland is not only affected by individual preferences and choices, but significantly by the institutional context, in particular the family policy system, as well as socio-cultural norms of how men and women should fulfill parental roles. The author distinguishes between different kinds of work done in connection to parenthood and shows how the existing institutional system reinforces gender and other forms of social inequalities even in a post-communist state like Poland. The author demonstrates that Polish society has different expectations and institutional norms related to work and gender norms compared to those in long-standing democracies in Europe and elsewhere. The book also shows that the experiences of parenthood in Poland are different between men and women, between single and coupled parents, and based on economic and other resources. This book is of interest to social science students and researchers of family studies, parenting, sociology of work, and social structure in post-communist societies.


Child Domestic Workers in Zimbabwe

Child Domestic Workers in Zimbabwe

Author: Michael Bourdillon

Publisher: African Books Collective

Published: 2007-10-15

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 1779221355

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In the context of AIDS and a declining economy, one strategy for children to ensure their own livelihood is to engage in domestic employment. Here, Michael Bourdillon presents the findings of research based on interviews and discussions with child domestic workers in Zimbabwe. It looks at the circumstances that pushed them into employment, the hardships and humiliations they face therein, as well as the benefits they derive, including, in some cases, education. Most children wanted improvements in their living and working conditions. They did not want to be stopped from working, perceiving that this would worsen their already harsh lives. While child domestic wok is problematic, and often lays children open to various types of abuse, it can also offer critical support and patronage to very disadvantaged children.


Child Labor

Child Labor

Author: Hugh D Hindman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-09-16

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 1315290839

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Despite its decline throughout the advanced industrial nations, child labor remains one of the major social, political, and economic concerns of modern history, as witnessed by the many high-profile stories on child labor and sweatshops in the media today. This work considers the issue in three parts. The first section discusses child labor as a social and economic problem in America from an historical and theoretical perspective. The second part presents child labor as National Child Labor Committee investigators found it in major American industries and occupations, including coal mines, cotton textile mills, and sweatshops in the early 1900s. Finally, the concluding section integrates these findings and attempts to apply them to child labor problems in America and the rest of the world today.


Rights and Wrongs of Children's Work

Rights and Wrongs of Children's Work

Author: M. F. C. Bourdillon

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 0813548888

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Explores the place of labor in children's lives and child development. By incorporating recent theoretical advances in childhood studies and in child development, the authors argue for the need to re-think assumptions that underlie current policies on child labor. Proposes a new approach to promote the well-being, development, and human rights of working children. From publisher description.