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A Will of Their Own
Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Working Children
A Will of Their Own
Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Working Children
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Description
This book shows how children's work can take on widely differing forms; and how it can both harm and benefit children. Differing in approach from most other work in the field, it endeavours to understand working children from their own perspective.
Table of Contents
1. Working children's movements in Africa, Latin America, and Asia
2. Children's work from the perspective of social research: an international stock-taking
3. The working child has a will of its own: subject oriented and participative research on children's work in Latin America
4. Childhood and worn in non-Western cultures: the fruits of ethnological and anthropological research
5. Working children in Europe - loss or new perspectives of childhood?
6. Working children and adolescents in the USA - juggling school and work
7. Work and play in the lives of children: reflections on an unfortunate separation and possible connections
8. The economic exploitation of children: towards a subject-oriented praxis
9. How working children resist exploitation and strive to share decisions about their work: experiences and examples from various continents and periods
10. Ways to self-determined children's work? The significance and problems of educationally conceived work projects
11. Thoughts on a subject-orinted theory of working children
Product details
Published | Feb 29 2008 |
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Format | Ebook (PDF) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 335 |
ISBN | 9781848131750 |
Imprint | Zed Books |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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Manfred Liebel's new book gives the reader an excellent overview of the plight of children who are working in several continents and it places this important issue in both its theoretical and political contexts.
Jens Qvortrup, Norwegian University for Science and Technology
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A controversial and thought-provoking book which prioritizes working children's own views on their work situation.
Madeleine Leonard, Queen's University
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Manfred Liebel's work exemplifies a rare and successful blend of passionate advocacy and creative thinking. A champion of the international working children's movement, he reaches a depth of analysis that is both interesting for academics and inspiring for activists, policy makers and the wider public. I am thrilled that the work of one of the major champions of NATS is now also available in English.
O. Nieuwenhuys, University of Amsterdam
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This exciting book marks a new departure for ways of thinking about children's work in contemporary societies.
Virginia Morrow, Brunel University

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