Rights and wrongs of children's work

Preface

Acknowledgments

List of Figures and Tables

List of Acronyms

1. Raising Questions, Questioning the Answers

When I was fired, I cried for two weeks: How Intervention Went Wrong in Morocco's Garment Industry

Whose Interests?

Ways of Thinking

Children's Rights

Knowledge, Understanding, and Information

2. Work That Children Do

What Is Children's Work?

What Children Say about Why They Work

Concluding Comment

3. Children's Work in Historical and Comparative Perspective

Child Labor and the Industrial Revolution in Britain around the Nineteenth Century

Child Work, Education, and Interventions in Asia and Africa: Examples from Indonesia and Zimbabwe

Children, Work, and Education in Communist Revolutions and Post-Communist Transitions

International Standards and Trends in Interventions

4. Child Work and Poverty: A Tangled Relationship

What Is Poverty?

Defining and Measuring Labor-Force Work

Many Poor Children Do Not Work for Pay

Labor Supply and Labor Demand

General Patterns

Children's Earnings: How Much, and Who Gets Them?

Are Children Working Instead of Adults, or Undermining Adult Wages?

Conditional Cash Transfers as Compensation for School Enrollment

Is Child Work a Cultural Phenomenon Rather Than an Economic Necessity?

The Effects of Child Work on Poverty Dynamics: How Learning Matters

Does Poverty Cause Child Work?

5. Work in Children's Development

Framing the Issue

The Idea of Human Development in Social Science

Concluding Observations

6. Education, School, and Work

Earn-and-Learn: Tea Estates in Zimbabwe

Children's Perceptions

The Right to Education

School as Work

Problems with Schools

Can School Mix with Work?

Combining Labor-Force Work with School

Learning through Work

Conclusion

7. Children Acting for Themselves

Agency of Children

Street Children

Independent Migration

Organizations of Working Children

Child Participation in Making Decisions

8. Assessing Harm against Benefits

Child Domestic Work: Pros and Cons

A Continuum of Harm and Benefit

Intolerable Forms and Conditions of Work

Assessing Hazardous Work

Weighing Harm against Benefits

A Note on Exploitation

What Does This Mean in Practice?

9. The Politics of International Intervention

The Case of Child Garment Workers in Bangladesh: Tragedy or Scandal?

Stitching Footballs in Sialkot

What Should Be Learned from These Experiences?

Promoting and Protecting the Interests of Children Who Work: A Case in Egypt

Concluding Thoughts

10. Policies and Interventions: What Should They Achieve, and How?

Starting Points

Principles

Practice

Notes

References

Index