Working to Be Someone - Child Focused Research and Practice with Working Children (Paperback)

Working to be Someone presents an overview of worldwide research on working children that considers children's own views of employment in favour of adult-constructed arguments about child work. This book brings together contributions by internationally renowned researchers who are committed to a 'subject-orientated' approach as well as views and observations of activists from organizations that either work with child labour or support working children's movements. Chapters examine the traditionally widespread care and domestic work carried out by children, discuss localized explorations of working children - for example in Morocco, India and Europe - as well as consider work as a means for children to contribute economically to the family. Contributors also discuss children's movements and organizations in Africa, Asia and South America that claim work as a necessity for survival as well as a key to children's own agency and citizenship. This book is a key text for both academics and social work practitioners that encourages re-evaluation of the notion of childhood and understands the complex phenomenon of working children.

General

Imprint:	Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 2007
First published:	2007
Editors:	Beatrice Hungerland
Contributors:	Antonella Invernizzi • Madeleine Leonard
Editors:	Manfred Liebel
Contributors:	William Myers • Anne Wihstutz • Virginia Morrow • Phillip Mizen
Editors:	Brian Milne
Contributors:	Sandy Hobbs
Dimensions:	235 x 160 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	272
ISBN-13:	978-1-84310-523-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social research & statistics > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Work & labour Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social welfare & social services > Child welfare
LSN:	1-84310-523-3
Barcode:	9781843105237

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