Research Catalog

Title

The exploited child / edited by Bernard Schlemmer ; translated by Philip Dresner.

Publication

London ; New York : Zed Books ; Paris : l'Institut de Recherche pour le Développement ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

Schlemmer, Bernard

Description

xi, 338 p.; 25 cm.

Uniform Title

Enfant exploité. English.

Subject

• Child labor > Developing countries
• Child labor
• Children > Developing countries > Social conditions
• Child labor
• Developing countries > Social conditions

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : a history of exploited children in Europe / Alessandro Stella -- The economy and child labour : an overview / Claude Meillassoux -- Child labour and the export sector in the Indian carpet industry / Mohini Gulrajani -- Growing up in Ghana : deregulation and the employment of children / Martin Verlet -- Living and working conditions : child labour in the coal mines of Colombia / Béatriz S. Céspedes Sastre and Maria-Isabel Zarama V. Meyer -- Stigmatization versus identity : child street-workers in Mexico / Elvira Taracena and Maria-Luisa Tavera -- Public policy, society, and child labour / Francis Gendreau -- Why is child labour tolerated? : the case of Brazil / Lia Fukui -- Rapid economic growth : the social exclusion of children in Thailand / Chantana Banpasirichote -- The public policy problem : child labour and the law in India / Usha Ramanathan -- Debates on poor children in Brazil : between marginalization and premature labour / Rosilene Alvim -- Introduction : child labour in the light of bonded labour / Michel Bonnet -- Paternal domination : the typical relationship conditioning the exploitation of children / Alain Morice -- Child employment in a capitalist labour market : the British case / Michaël Lavalette -- Coffee beans and the seeds of labour : child labour on Guatemalan plantations / Charles-Édouard de Suremain -- The exploitation of apprentices in Togo / Yves Marguerat -- Apprenticeship in France : a parallel case in an industrialized society / Bernard Garet -- Family versus the logic of the market / Robert Cabanes -- The demand for labour within the household : child labour in Togo / Marie-France Lange -- The household economy and the commercial exploitation of children's work : the case of Kerala / Olga Nieuwenhuys -- The disintegrating social fabric : child labour and socialization in Senegal / Serigne Mor Mbaye and Abdou Salam Fall -- "Unexploited" labour : social transition in Madagascar / Bodo Ravololomanga and Bernard Schlemmer -- Looking ahead : a general conclusion / Claude Meillassoux.

ISBN

• 1856497208 (cased)
• 1856497216 (limp)

OCLC

43718785

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library