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Levitan, Sar A.; Gallo, Frank – Monthly Labor Review, 1990
The past 75 years have seen the enactment of laws protecting women and children, setting workplace standards, and establishing social insurance programs. (Author)
Descriptors: Child Labor, Employed Women, Employment, Family (Sociological Unit)
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Nelson, Richard R. – Monthly Labor Review, 1990
Discusses major laws enacted on a variety of subjects, including minimum wage, parental leave, drugs and AIDS testing, and door-to-door sales by children. A state-by-state summary of labor legislation is included. (Author)
Descriptors: Child Labor, Drug Use Testing, Labor Legislation, Leaves of Absence
Goodson, Elizabeth; And Others – Labour Education, 1995
The issue discusses the role of the International Labour Office in the field of workers' education for rural workers and their organizations. Articles discuss labor conditions, child labor in agriculture, gender and equality training, trade unions, fair trade, and changing patterns of food production. Appendixes include information about…
Descriptors: Adults, Agricultural Production, Child Labor, Foreign Countries
Nichols, Martha – Harvard Business Review, 1993
Six experts in global sourcing and labor give their opinions on a fictional case study centering on the ethics of child labor used by a multinational company in a developing nation. (SK)
Descriptors: Business Responsibility, Case Studies, Child Labor, Developing Nations
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Gunn, Susan E.; Ostos, Zenaida – International Labour Review, 1992
Describes child labor in the Philippines and two responses to the needs of child scavengers: the Drop In Center, which provided health, social, and employment services to children and their families, and SABANA, a sheltered learning place for child workers. (JOW)
Descriptors: Child Labor, Child Welfare, Foreign Countries, Health Services
Potosky, Alice – Techniques: Making Education and Career Connections, 1999
Discusses insurance, labor legislation, unions, and child-labor legislation as they relate to school-business partnerships. Offers ways to alleviate concerns and get employers involved. (Author/JOW)
Descriptors: Child Labor, Education Work Relationship, Insurance, Labor Legislation
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Macarov, D. – International Journal of Manpower, 1981
The history of the work environment and efforts to humanize it are related. Motivations for humanizing are discussed: worker welfare and the belief that worker satisfaction improves worker productivity. Efforts to increase humanization, such as legislation and efforts by labor unions, are also discussed. (CT)
Descriptors: Child Labor, Employee Attitudes, Federal Legislation, Humanization
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Schneider de Villegas, Gisela – International Labour Review, 1990
Wage work done at home has existed for more than a century. It is performed mainly by women and the disabled and can be a concealed form of child labor. This article examines the main aspects of the subject and advocates increased legal protection. (JOW)
Descriptors: Child Labor, Disabilities, Federal Legislation, Females
Knight, William James – 1980
This monograph, fourth in a series on labor development, focuses on child exploitation in the context of child labor. The collection of papers briefly discusses (1) the relation between conditions of poverty and the prevalence of child labor in developing countries; (2) the lack of effectiveness of labor legislation in preventing child…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Development, Child Labor, Children
Zarnowski, Myra – 1997
In "Kids at Work," Russell Freedman explores the world of child labor during the years 1908-1918 when Lewis Hine, "teacher-crusader," worked as an investigative photographer for the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC). Hine's writing and the photos he gathered from across the country revealed a "shocking reality that…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Labor, Child Welfare, Children
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Liebel, Manfred – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 2003
Focuses on the significance of organizations of working children for processes of transformation in their societies. Argues that while structural causes of exploitation and poverty account for persistence of child labor, organizations of working children are of growing importance in efforts to improve their life conditions, noting that many…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Child Labor, Child Welfare, Children
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Constantine, J. Robert – Monthly Labor Review, 1991
During the early twentieth century, Eugene V. Debs supported abolition of child labor, equal pay for equal work for women, and pensions for both men and women. (Author/JOW)
Descriptors: Biographies, Child Labor, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Labor Legislation
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Bequele, Assefa; Boyden, Jo – International Labour Review, 1988
Examines the types of employment children are most frequently engaged in, the risks involved, earnings, relationship between work and school, and the constraints on the exercise of their rights. Discusses initiatives underway to protect child workers, meet their needs, and formulate government policy. (JOW)
Descriptors: Child Labor, Children, Childrens Rights, Developing Nations
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McKechnie, Jim; Hobbs, Sandy; Lindsay, Sandra; Lynch, Margaret – Children & Society, 1998
Recent evidence has emerged that in Britain, like the United States, many children below minimum school-leaving age are working. Often, the work is illegal. Research in the United States suggests that many risk accidents and other hazards to health. Evidence from Britain is of a more fragmentary nature, but enough exists to suggest a need for…
Descriptors: Child Health, Child Labor, Child Safety, Employment Problems
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Greenberger, Ellen – American Psychologist, 1983
A developmental psychologist describes her experience in testifying at Congressional hearings on proposed revisions in child labor legislation. The testimony argued that proposals to increase job opportunities for school-going teenagers are a threat to their development and to the job prospects of unemployed out-of-school youths and adults.…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Child Labor, Child Welfare, Hearings
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