Working to be Someone

"Working to be Someone" presents an overview of worldwide research on working children that considers children's own views of employment in favour of adult-constructed arguments about child work. This book brings together contributions by internationally renowned researchers who are committed to a 'subject-orientated' approach as well as views and observations of activists from organizations that either work with child labour or support working children's movements. Chapters examine the traditionally widespread care and domestic work carried out by children, discuss localized explorations of working children - for example in Morocco, India and Europe - as well as consider work as a means for children to contribute economically to the family. Contributors also discuss children's movements and organizations in Africa, Asia and South America that claim work as a necessity for survival as well as a key to children's own agency and citizenship. This book is a key text for both academics and social work practitioners that encourages re-evaluation of the notion of childhood and understands the complex phenomenon of working children.

ISBN 1843105233   Pages 272 ISBN13 9781843105237 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Jessica Kingsley Publishers   Weight (grammes) 413 Imprint Jessica Kingsley Publishers   Published in London Format Paperback   Height (mm) 234 Publication date 28 Feb 2007   Width (mm) 156 Library of Congress HD6231   Spine width (mm) 17 DEWEY 331.31   Academic level Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC22

1		A feminist economist's approach to children's work by Deborah Levison		17
2		Working children and the cultural perception of childhood by Zandra Pedraza-Gomez		23
3		Harmed by work or developing through work? : issues in the study of psychosocial impacts by Martin Woodhead		31
4		The reintegration of children into the adult world of work : ominous sign or cause for optimism? by Dieter Kirchhofer		43
5		Child domestic workers in Zimbabwe : children's perspectives by Michael Bourdillon		55
6		Negotiating gender identities : domestic work of Indian children in Britain and in India by Vinod Chandra		67
7		The significance of care and domestic work to children : a German portrayal by Anne Wihstutz		77
8		'Helping at home' : the concept of childhood and work among the Nahuas of Tlaxcala, Mexico by Martha Areli Ramirez Sanchez		87
9		Children's work as preparation for adulthood : a British perspective by Jim McKechnie and Sandy Hobbs		99
10		Working children in Fez, Morocco : relationship between knowledge and strategies for social and professional integration by Bernard Schlemmer		109
11		Working and growing up in America : myths and realities by Jeylan T. Mortimer		117
12		Between prohibition and praise : some hidden aspects of children's work in affluent societies by Manfred Liebel		123
13		Children's work as 'participation' : thoughts on ethnographic data in Lima and the Algarve by Antonella Invernizzi		135
14		Child employment in Northern Ireland : myths and realities by Madeleine Leonard		145
15		Vocabularies, motives and meanings - school-age workers in Britain : towards a synthesis? by Christopher Pole		151
16		Child work and child labour in Italy : the point of view of the children by Maria Teresa Tagliaventi		161
17		Work - a way to participative autonomy for children by Beatrice Hungerland		167
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