Child Labour (Print)

Child Labour (Print)
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 88
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ISBN-10 : 9280652397
ISBN-13 : 9789280652390
Rating : 4/5 (97 Downloads)

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Factory Girl

Factory Girl
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Publisher : Kids Can Press
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1553376498
ISBN-13 : 9781553376491
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Synopsis Factory Girl by : Barbara Greenwood

At the dingy, overcrowded Acme Garment Factory, Emily Watson stands for eleven hours a day clipping threads from blouses. Every time the boss passes, he shouts at her to snip faster. But if Emily snips too fast, she could ruin the garment and be docked pay. If she works too slowly, she will be fired. She desperately needs this job. Without the four dollars a week it brings, her family will starve. When a reporter arrives, determined to expose the terrible conditions in the factory, Emily finds herself caught between the desperate immigrant girls with whom she works and the hope of change. Then tragedy strikes, and Emily must decide where her loyalties lie. Emily's fictional experiences are interwoven with non-fiction sections describing family life in a slum, the fight to improve social conditions, the plight of working children then and now, and much more. Rarely seen archival photos accompany this story of the past as only Barbara Greenwood can tell it.

Give Girls a Chance

Give Girls a Chance
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Publisher : International Labour Office
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 9221223744
ISBN-13 : 9789221223740
Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Synopsis Give Girls a Chance by : Una Murray (international development consultant.)

This report is a profile on child labour among girls and draws attention to the international legal framework as it relates to child labour. It identifies the reasons why it is important that the issues facing girls engaged in child labour be urgently addressed. Girls are highly vulnerable as many forms of girls' work is hidden, girls face multiple disadvantages, and have the "double burden" of having to combine household chores and economic activity, which as a result jeopardises their schooling. The report provides an analysis of the work of girls and boys in sixteen countries looking both at economic activities and unpaid household services. The observations that emerge are that overall, girls work longer hours than boys, and girls constitute a large proportion of the children engaged in the most dangerous forms of child labour, including forced and bonded labour and prostitution. The report calls for strengthening the knowledge base on issues of child labour among girls and suggests that policy steps include free quality education for all children up to the minimum age of employment.

A Future Without Child Labour

A Future Without Child Labour
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Publisher : International Labour Organization
Total Pages : 156
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ISBN-10 : 9789221124160
ISBN-13 : 9221124169
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis A Future Without Child Labour by :

Child labour in fishing

"I Must Work to Eat"

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Total Pages : 69
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ISBN-10 : OCLC:1252785549
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

Synopsis "I Must Work to Eat" by : Jo Becker

"The unprecedented economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, together with school closures and inadequate government assistance, is pushing children into exploitative and dangerous child labor. As their parents have lost jobs or income due to the pandemic and associated lockdowns, many children have entered the workforce to help their families survive. Many work long, grueling hours for little or no pay, often under hazardous conditions. Some report violence, harassment, and pay theft. [This report] is based on interviews conducted from January to March 2021 with 81 children, ages 8-17, in Ghana, Nepal, and Uganda.... The report examines the impact of the pandemic on children's rights, including their rights to education, to an adequate standard of living, and to protection from child labor, as well as government responses."--Page 4 of cover.

Every child counts: new global estimates on child labour

Every child counts: new global estimates on child labour
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Publisher : ILO/IPEC
Total Pages : 51
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ISBN-10 : 9789221131137
ISBN-13 : 9221131130
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis Every child counts: new global estimates on child labour by :

[Introduction] This document presents the results of ILO research on the global magnitude of child labour. It introduces new global estimates for economic activity by children and child labour in the sense of ILO Conventions Nos 138 and 182. There are no national data to be found in this document. The lowest aggregate level presented are the major world regions. All estimates are for the benchmark year 2000. Child labour is a sensitive subject and numbers on its magnitude play an important role in global policy-making and advocacy efforts. The research was conducted in acute awareness of this responsability and used well-proven statistical methodologies in an attempt to keep error margins to a minimum. All sources, underlying definitions and methodological steps are explained in detail. The document is devided into three main sections. Section 1 presents the main findings. Sections 2 and 3 introduce definitions and methodologies. Data are presented in tables and charts

The Child and the State in India

The Child and the State in India
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 236
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ISBN-10 : 0691018987
ISBN-13 : 9780691018980
Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

Synopsis The Child and the State in India by : Myron Weiner

India has the largest number of non-schoolgoing working children in the world. Why has the government not removed them from the labor force and required that they attend school, as have the governments of all developed and many developing countries? To answer this question, this major comparative study first looks at why and when other states have intervened to protect children against parents and employers. By examining Europe of the nineteenth century, the United States, Japan, and a number of developing countries, Myron Weiner rejects the argument that children were removed from the labor force only when the incomes of the poor rose and employers needed a more skilled labor force. Turning to India, the author shows that its policies arise from fundamental beliefs, embedded in the culture, rather than from economic conditions. Identifying the specific values that elsewhere led educators, social activists, religious leaders, trade unionists, military officers, and government bureaucrats to make education compulsory and to end child labor, he explains why similar groups in India do not play the same role.

Child Labor in the Developing World

Child Labor in the Developing World
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 282
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ISBN-10 : 9789811531064
ISBN-13 : 9811531064
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis Child Labor in the Developing World by : Alberto Posso

This book provides new evidence of the theoretical and empirical causes and consequences of child labor. In so doing, the chapters provide a unique set of policy prescriptions that are applicable to both the developing countries that make up the case studies of the volume, as well as other countries more broadly. The volume is constructed to inform policy with rigorous analysis. However, unlike most academic studies, the language and flavour of the volume is largely non-technical, while the policy recommendations are practical. The volume is made up of three sections. The first section builds on the existing literature and provides new theoretical insights into child labor. Section 2 provides empirical evidence from both quantitative and qualitative case studies on child labor from across Asia, Africa and Latin America. This section provides information from studies conducted in Brazil, Cameroon, the Dominican Republic, India and Vietnam. Section 3 provides policy recommendations.

Girl Child Labour

Girl Child Labour
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 218
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015052472407
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis Girl Child Labour by : Rachita Jawa

In the Indian context.

Combating Child Labour

Combating Child Labour
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Publisher : International Labour Organization
Total Pages : 262
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9221063895
ISBN-13 : 9789221063896
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Synopsis Combating Child Labour by : Assefa Bequele

This work examines the developments in the campaign against child labour and the defence of the rights of children.