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Sharma, Binita; Dangal, Megh R. – Journal of Education and Work, 2019
This study examines how child labour carried out in Nepal's brick kilns impacts classroom performance and achievement, while also exploring parents' perspectives towards it. To this end, a field study within select brick kilns was conducted among child labourers as well as adults whose offspring had previously worked as child labourers.…
Descriptors: Child Labor, Seasonal Laborers, Foreign Countries, Parent Attitudes
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Woldehanna, Tassew; Jones, Nicola; Tefera, Bekele – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 2008
The complexities of intergenerational and gendered intra-household resource allocations are frequently overlooked in poverty reduction policies. To address this lacuna, this article focuses on links between macro-development policies and children's paid and unpaid work burden in Ethiopia. Using a mixed methods approach, quantitative household…
Descriptors: Poverty, Children, Foreign Countries, Access to Education
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Invernizzi, Antonella – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 2003
Recounts an ethnographic study of children's work in Lima, Peru, examining concepts of work, family, and childhood; adult representations and norms passed on to children through work; and child's point of view regarding work and how it evolves with time. Argues children and parents' views and practices regarding work and socialization give a…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Child Relationship, Child Labor, Childhood Attitudes
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Stadum, Beverly – Child Welfare, 1995
Draws on publications, agency records, professional literature, and historical studies of the reformers who lobbied for regulation of child labor and compulsory school attendance. Examines the role of social workers in implementing the reforms and reactions of low-income families affected by the laws. Notes that professionals' failure to…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Child Labor, Child Rearing, Child Welfare
Bel Geddes, Joan – 1997
Children and childhood are almost completely ignored in most history books, encyclopedias, anthologies, and almanacs, which concentrate on the achievement of the adult half of the world's population. This book is intended to fill the gap by focusing on childhood, and presents an array of facts, anecdotes, profiles, and observations about children…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Child Behavior, Child Development, Child Labor
Anandalakshmy, S., Comp. – 1994
This report describes a nationwide study of female children and the family in rural India. The objectives of the study were to generate data on the situation of female children; to identify the major problems related to their status; to start a series of programs to help remedy those shortcomings; and to assist communities, and women in…
Descriptors: Child Health, Child Labor, Child Welfare, Children