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Taye, Fasil Nigussie; Huijsmans, Roy – Global Studies of Childhood, 2020
In this article, we bring to the foreground an understudied dimension of working children's lives in the Global South: their access to money and the consumption this facilitates. Drawing on life history interviews, we show that among the Gamo weavers of Ethiopia, the modern phenomenon of a monetised childhood is at least six decades old and an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Labor, Personal Narratives, Apprenticeships
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Hsin, Amy – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2007
Data from the Worker and Iron Status Evaluation are used to examine gendered patterns in children's time in market and nonmarket work, schooling, and leisure in Indonesia (N = 2,929). Boys spend more time in market work; girls spend more time in nonmarket work. Work responsibilities increase with age as well as gender differentials in children's…
Descriptors: Leisure Time, Family Income, Gender Differences, Child Labor