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Baxter, Neale – Occupational Outlook Quarterly, 1992
Advises high school and college students on where and how to look for summer jobs. Lists information sources and notes laws regulating types of jobs adolescents can hold. (SK)
Descriptors: Child Labor, College Students, High School Students, Job Application

Horn, Pamela – History of Education, 1988
Examines the influence of education upon the lives of British working-class girls between 1870-1914, taking into account the fact that for many, schooling was subordinated to work. Discusses gender stereotyping, stating that only the most determined girls obtained, through education, entry into jobs allowing talent development and competition with…
Descriptors: Child Labor, Children, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education

Weiser, Margaret – International Journal of Early Childhood, 1990
Details the 1990 meeting of the World Council of the World Organization for Early Childhood Education (OMEP) in Lagos, Nigeria. OMEP's Statement to the World Summit for Children is provided. The conditions of Nigerian children and female children in India are considered. (BG)
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Health, Child Labor, Childhood Needs

Murray, Eloise Comeau – Canadian Home Economics Journal, 1986
Outlines the major impacts of the developments that have occurred in the past quarter century upon families in developing countries. The article examines the evidence that shows that home economists have the knowledge and attitudes to develop such an orientation in their professional programs designed to foster development. (Author/CT)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Child Labor, Developing Nations, Energy

Insights on Law & Society, 2002
Focuses on the rights of youth in three articles: (1) "Equal Justice? Girls in the Juvenile Justice System"; (2) "Child Labor: An International Challenge"; and (3) "Should Minors Have Access to Violent Video Games?" Includes learning activities at the end of each article. (CMK)
Descriptors: Child Labor, Childrens Rights, Civics, Females
Hutchins, Leonard – Echoes: The Northern Maine Journal, 1994
The author reminisces about his childhood during World War II and the impact the war had on the rural community in which he lived. During wartime, children worked on farms after school and during the summer, commodities were rationed, and communities took part in air-raid drills. School lessons revolved around the war's events. (LP)
Descriptors: Child Labor, Childhood Attitudes, Children, Economic Impact

Post, David – Comparative Education Review, 2001
Reviews five books on child labor, published 1997-2000, with reference to the International Labour Organization's 1999 convention that retreats from its previous hard stance on child labor. Discusses street children; public policy on child labor, child welfare, and school attendance; types of children's work; and working children as agents…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Book Reviews, Child Labor, Child Welfare

Pasztor, Eileen Mayers; McFadden, Emily Jean – Child Welfare, 2001
Discusses the effects of a global perspective on awareness of issues affecting child welfare worldwide, including warfare, land mines, AIDS, child labor, child sexual exploitation, and immigration. Considers programs and policies from other countries, including nongovernmental organizations, that can be replicated worldwide to better children's…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Child Abuse, Child Labor, Child Welfare

Abebe, Behailu; Aptekar, Lewis – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 1997
Presents taxonomy of hostility toward street children: (1) penal-instructive hostility based on punishing children for inappropriate behavior; (2) collective frustrated hostility based on ethnocentric social class attitudes toward the poor; and (3) cultural hostility, accounted for by differences attributed to sedentary and nomadic peripatetic…
Descriptors: Aggression, Anger, Child Labor, Child Welfare

Myrstad, Geir – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 1999
Examines mainly practical activities of trade unions to fight child labor. Argues that trade unions can give the most significant contribution to the struggle against child labor by focusing on methods that are typical for, or even exclusive to, the trade union movement, in particular negotiations and collective bargaining. (Author)
Descriptors: Arbitration, Behavior Standards, Child Advocacy, Child Labor

Connolly, Mark; Ennew, Judith – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 1996
Introduces workshop papers proposing research agendas based on the assumption that street children's public image hinders both research and program development. Argues that research emphasis should shift to analysis of children's relationship to the street environment; this approach, derived from social science research, entails innovative and…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adolescents, Child Labor, Children
Guddemi, Marcy – 1992
Several factors are eroding children's right to play. The first is continuing poverty throughout the world. This factor is evident in underdeveloped countries and the inner cities of industrialized countries. Changing cultural values are a second factor in developed societies where indifference toward the importance of play is prevalent. The many…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Labor, Childhood Needs, Childrens Rights
Hawes, Joseph M. – 1984
The impact of urbanization, industrialization, and immigration on American children from the 1850's to the 1920's is examined. Specifically, child labor, schooling, growing up female in the industrial age, the juvenile justice system, and dependent children are discussed. Before 1900, child protection in all its manifestations was an informal…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Child Labor, Child Welfare, Children
Davis, Shelley; Leonard, James B. – 2000
Contrary to popular perception, the agricultural workplace presents many hazards. Yet children are allowed to work on farms at an age when they are likely to lack the training, skill, or maturity to handle these functions safely. This study of child labor in agriculture is divided into seven parts. Following an introductory section, part 2…
Descriptors: Child Labor, Farm Labor, Federal Legislation, Injuries
Brown, Brett – 2001
The upcoming reauthorization of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant is prompting closer scrutiny of how families affected by the law are faring. This research brief examines teen employment in the context of welfare reform, drawing on data from the National Survey of America's Families (NSAF) to describe employment…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Behavior, Adolescent Development, Adolescents