“Child Labour” and Children’s Lives

Bourdillon, Michael

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-95543-8_3

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“…Thus, as has been shown by much research on child labour guided by the social studies of childhood (Boudillon et al, 2014;Bourdillon, 2018;Invernizzi 2003;Liebel 2003), our fieldwork contributes to destabilising hegemonic notions of childhood. This is a point that Viviana (1985), Zelizer (2002) highlighted when showing that a useless but priceless view of childhood gained ground throughout the 20 th century, where each child became a sacred, sentimental object of care.…”

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confidence: 89%

Disputed meanings about child labour, its consequences, and interventions: discussions based on ethnographic research in Argentina

Rausky

Zuker

2022

Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal

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Based on ethnographies with working children and their families in low-income neighbourhoods in Argentina, this article explores the experiences constructed around child labour, its meanings, and consequences, taking into account the locations and social relations in which it takes place. In doing so, it offers a nuanced reading of child labour that distances it from the dualistic thinking, deeply rooted in social sciences, in which, on the one hand, researchers conclude that child labour should be eradicated (the work-free childhood discourse) and, on the other hand, it is recognised as a right (the regulationist perspective). Based on field studies, the article challenges this dualistic thinking and presents a nuanced, alternative narrative.

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Section: Findings and Discussionmentioning

confidence: 89%