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The World of Child Labor : an Historical and Regional Survey.
""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 th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Editor and Contributors; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Editor's Introduction: Child Labor in Global and Historical Perspective; Editor's Note: Measuring Child Labor; Part 1: World; Section 1. Understanding Child Labor; The Economic View of Child Labor; Social Science Views on Working Children; A Brief Historiography of Child Labor; Toward an Integrative Theory of Child Labor; Section 2. More Developed Regions of the World; Periods of History: Childhood and Child Work, c. 1800-Present; Child Labor in the Industrial Revolution.
- Coming to Terms with Child LaborComing to Terms with Child Labor: The Historical Role of Education; Coming to Terms with Child Labor: History of Child Welfare; Coming to Terms with Child Labor: The Role of Technology; Child Labor in the Developed Nations Today; Global Trade and Child Labor; Visual Representations of Child Labor in the West; Section 3. Less Developed Regions of the World; Worst Forms of Child Labor; Worst Forms of Child Labor: Agriculture; Worst Forms of Child Labor: Child Domestic Labor; Worst Forms of Child Labor: Street Children and Street Trades.
- Worst Forms of Child Labor: Commercial Sexual Exploitation of ChildrenWorst Forms of Child Labor: Children and War; Worst Forms of Child Labor: Child Bonded Labor; The Puzzle of "Idle" Children, neither in School nor Performing Economic Activity; Child Labor Policy for Developing Nations; Education and Child Labor: A Global Perspective; Special Health Risks of Child Labor; Section 4. Action Against Child Labor; The United Nations and UNICEF; Millennium Development Goals; International Labor Organization (ILO) and the International Program for the Elimination of Child Labor (IPEC).
- The Role of Nongovernmental OrganizationsThe Role of Trade Unions; Organization of Working Children; The Economics of Consumer Actions Against Products with Child Labor Content; Global March Against Child Labor; Part 2: Sub-Saharan Africa; Section 1. Introduction; Child Labor in Postcolonial Africa; Child Labor in Colonial Africa; HIV/AIDS and Child Labor in Sub-Saharan Africa; Influence of Orphanhood on Children's Schooling and Labor: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa; Children's Work Among Traditional Healers in Africa; Child Labor Unions in Africa; Section 2. Western Africa.
- Trafficking for Labor Exploitation in West and Central AfricaKoranic Schools and Child Labor in West Africa; Burkina Faso; Child Labor in Burkina Faso; Côte d'Ivoire; Children's Work, Child Domestic Labor, and Child Trafficking in Côte d'Ivoire; Gambia; Ghana; Child Labor in Ghana; Guinea-Bissau; Mali; Child Labor in Mali; Niger; Nigeria; Child Labor in Nigeria; Children in Street Trading in Nigeria; Child Labor in Nigeria: Historical Perspective; Senegal; Child Labor in Senegal: Contemporary and Historical Perspective; Sierra Leone; Togo; Section 3. Middle Africa.