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Contemporary Slavery - Researching Child Domestic Servitude (Paperback)
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Contemporary Slavery - Researching Child Domestic Servitude (Paperback)
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This book investigates child domestic servitude in Ghana, showing
the process of the children's recruitment into domestic servitude,
revealing their working conditions, and detailing the methods of
compensation. It seeks to answer the question of whether child
domestic servants are contemporary slaves. The findings show that
elite households in Ghana exploit children from rural regions. This
is because they have taken advantage of a historical practice that
allowed children to live with older members of their extended
families and provide domestic services. In return, they are to be
given the chance to receive formal education or to learn a trade.
The author's research techniques helped overcome the usual
methodical difficulties that exclude child domestic servants from
mainstream research on child labor exploitation. The author's
approach allowed observation of the servants, not as isolated
individuals, but as members of groups whose activities influenced
their status and life chances. Most of the participants in this
research provided vivid and chilling accounts of domestic servitude
in Ghana. The book provides a glimpse of the contemporary slavery
that is present in Ghana today.
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