Disrupting conceptual certainties: reconsidering children’s work and schooling
In these times of increasing uncertainties, and rising inequalities, ‘children’ living in poverty are experiencing greater demands...
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In these times of increasing uncertainties, and rising inequalities, ‘children’ living in poverty are experiencing greater demands...
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This Rapid Review is an attempt to instigate a broader discussion on child labour by considering the various dimensions and angles associated with the phenomenon beyond the straitjacket definitions provided in most reports.
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Cocoa farming in West Africa has a long history of relying on family labour, including children’s labour. Increasingly, global concern is voiced about the hazardous nature of children’s work, without considering how it contributes to their social development.
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This paper proposes a dynamic conceptual framework – the edu-workscape – for understanding how rural children in sub-Saharan Africa navigate three key gendered social arenas: the household, school and workplaces.
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This paper explores policy and legislation aimed at preventing, regulating, and abolishing harmful children’s work in Ghana, and the political debates and controversies surrounding these mechanisms. The paper critically interrogates the successes and challenges of previous and current policies and interventions.
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This paper provides an overview of issues related to disabled children and work. It reviews the limited literature on the topic and provides some reflections on the possible involvement of disabled children in work, their routes into work, its potential causes and consequences.
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This paper presents different types of governance mechanisms that can be present in a specific value chain and explores how these can be used or need to be modified in view of intentions to reduce children’s harmful work.
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Children work throughout the Lake Volta fisheries value chain. It is commonly assumed most have been trafficked. Research and advocacy has focused on dangers to young boys harvesting fish, and poverty as a driver, precluding attention to harms experienced by non-trafficked children, girls’ experiences and work-education dynamics. More work is needed on the proportions of children who fish and perform harmful work; structural, ecological and historical contexts; young people’s agency in pursuing fishing work; and why attention to trafficking dominates.
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
A central and implicit issue that shapes the present political and institutional consensus surrounding child labour is the notion of harm. Although efforts to address children’s work rest firmly on assumptions about what is harmful, no coherent theory of harm exists
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Children’s engagement with work has been widely researched using a wide variety of methods. However, the extent to which such methods and their combination provides insight into forms of children’s harmful work (CHW) is not obvious.