Working to be someone : child focused research and practice with working children /
Presents an overview of worldwide research on working children that takes the children's own points of view of their work into account. This book aims to highlight and discuss children's employment from a point of view that amplifies their concern rather than disengaging them from adult co...
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London :
Jessica Kingsley,
2007.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Beatrice Hungerland, Manfred Liebel, Brian Milne and Anne Wihstutz
- Theoretical approaches
- A feminist economist's approach to children's work / Deborah Levison
- Working children and the cultural perception of childhood / Zandra Pedraza-Gómez
- Harmed by work or developing through work? Issues in the study of psychosocial impacts / Martin Woodhead
- The reintegration of children into the adult world of work: ominous sign or cause for optimism? / Dieter Kirchhfer
- Care and domestic work
- Child domestic workers in Zimbabwe / Michael Bourdillon
- Negotiating gender identities: domestic work of Indian children in Britain and in India / Vinod Chandra
- The significance of care and domestic work to children: a German portrayal / Anne Wihstutz
- 'Helping at home': the concept of childhood and work among the Nahuas of Tlaxcala, Mexico / Martha Areli Ramírez Sánchez
- Work and competence
- Children's work as preparation for adulthood: a British perspective / Jim McKechnie and Sandy Hobbs
- Working children in Fez (Morocco): relationship between knowledge and strategies
- For social and professional integration / Bernard Schlemmer
- Working and growing up in America: myths and realities / Jeylan T. Mortimer
- Between prohibition and praise: some hidden aspects of children's work in affluent societies / Manfred Liebel
- Participation of working children
- Children's work as 'participation': thoughts on ethnographic data in Lima and the Algarve / Antonella Invernizzi
- Child employment in Northern Ireland: myths and realities / Madeleine Leonard
- Vocabularies, motives and meanings-school-age workers in Britain: towards a synthesis? / Christopher Pole
- Child work and child labour in Italy: the point of view of the children / Maria Teresa Tagliaventi
- Work: a way to participative autonomy for children / Beatrice Hungerland
- Citizenship and working children's movements and organisations
- The stakes of children's participation in Africa: the African movement of working children and youth 179 / Hamidou Coly
- Working with working children in India / Nandana Reddy
- Dialogue and empowerment for change: the influence of organisations of working children in Southeast Asia on the social status of working children / Dominique Pierre Plateau
- Do the participation articles in the convention on the rights of the child (CRC) present us with a recipe for children's citizenship? / Brian Milne
- Challenges and perspectives for research and policy
- Challenges for social research and action with working children / Virginia Morrow
- Some suggestions for social research on working children's initiatives / William E. Myers
- The balance model reconsidered: changing perceptions of child employment / Sandy Hobbs and Jim McKechnie
- Exploring children's work through pictures / Phil Mizen.