Child Workers and Capitalist Development: An Introductory Note and Bibliography

Goddard, Victoria; White, Ben

doi:10.1111/j.1467-7660.1982.tb00131.x

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“…During the course of training, and for about half the period after training, the child/young workers are not paid any cash. The perpetuation of child labour through kinship and personal relationships is also noted in other studies (see, for example, Goddard and White 1982). According to one adult artisan, 'The trainees have to work free for the mentor for at least half the period of their training.…”

Section: Types and Experiences Of Flexibilitymentioning

confidence: 68%

Flexible work, gender and globalised production

Soni-Sinha

2009

Contributions to Indian Sociology

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The restructuring of world economies in the 1980s and the 1990s has given rise to debates around globalisation, feminisation and flexibility. In the light of these macroeconomic debates, this article analyses the relationship of feminisation and masculinisation to flexibility in the microeconomic context of jewellery production in the Noida Export Processing Zone (NEPZ) and Delhi. It compares ‘flexibility’ in the handmade jewellery sector, which is largely informal, to machine-made jewellery, which is quasi-formal. Most debates on flexibility focus on the supply side and the removal of ‘institiutional rigidities’ that prevent the functioning of free market forces. These debates focus on the issues of organisational flexibility, labour market flexibility and functional flexibility of the entrepreneur. This study goes beyond the employer–worker dyad to examine ‘flexibility’ for the intermediate actors involved in production. In the handmade jewellery sector in both Delhi and NEPZ, labour market flexibility is occurring with a largely masculinised labour force. In machine-made jewellery, there is a slight feminisation of flexible status but it is not marked. The gendered division of labour, thus, is only a small part of what flexibility constitutes, if at all.

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Section: Types and Experiences Of Flexibilitymentioning

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Flexible work, gender and globalised production

Soni-Sinha

2009

Contributions to Indian Sociology

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“…• is mentally, physically, socially or morally dangerous and harmful to children; and/ or • interferes with their schooling by: depriving them of the opportunity to attend school; obliging them to leave school prematurely; or requiring them to attempt to combine school attendance with excessively long and heavy work. 8 This approach shaped the context within which Goddard and White (1982, and the associated special issue of the journal Development and Change), White (1994), , Bonnet et al (2006), Bourdillion et al (2010) and others sought to re-think and re-frame the discussion of children's economic activity. Despite these efforts, with its focus on danger and harm on the one hand and interference with schooling on the other, the ILO approach continues to directly inform current concerns about, and efforts to eliminate, child labour from some high-profile agricultural value chains in SSA.…”

Section: Children's Workmentioning

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Children’s Work in African Agriculture

2023

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EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book examines children’s involvement in African agricultural work. It argues that framing all children’s engagement in economic activity as ‘child labour’, with all the associated negative connotations, is problematic. The conceptual and case-based chapters reframe the debate about children’s work and harm in rural Africa with the aim of shifting research, public discourse and policy so that they better serve the interest of rural children and their families.

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“…Building on an emerging body of critical social science research (e.g. Goddard and White, 1982, and the associated special issue of the journal Development and Change ), beginning in the 1990s, a handful of scholars began to argue that there was much to be gained by reframing the problem of, and debates around, child labour by changing the focus to ‘children’s work’ (Boyden and Ling, 1998; Bourdillon et al, 2010). Their ambition was much more profound than a simple semantic or definitional shift, nor did they seek to deny or diminish the exploitation and harm that some children experience while working.…”

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Children’s work in African agriculture: Time for a rethink

Sumberg

Sabates‐Wheeler

2020

Outlook Agric

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This article outlines a tension that plays itself out in rural areas throughout Africa. On the one hand, it is recognized that children throughout the world engage in economic activity, and this is particularly so in rural areas. On the other hand, is the policy, corporate and NGO focus on the elimination of child labour from the production of a small number of African export commodities. We argue that a key to resolving this tension and opening the door to more effective interventions to address children’s harmful work is to reframe the problem of, and debates around, child labour by changing the focus to children’s work. The article briefly explores some implications of this shift.

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Child Workers and Capitalist Development: An Introductory Note and Bibliography

Cited by 22 publications

References 4 publications

Flexible work, gender and globalised production

Flexible work, gender and globalised production

Children’s Work in African Agriculture

Children’s work in African agriculture: Time for a rethink

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