The world of child labor : an historical and regional survey
(eBook)

Editor's introduction : Child labor in global and historical perspective / Hugh D. Hindman -- Editor's note: Measuring child labor --

Part I. World -- Section 1. Understanding child labor -- The economic view of child labor / Patrick M. Emerson -- Social science views on working children / Ben White -- A brief historiography of child labor / Colin Heywood -- Toward an integrative theory of child labor / G.K. Lieten --

Section 2. More developed regions of the world -- Periods of history: childhood and child work, c.1800-present / Harry Hendrick -- Child labor in the Industrial Revolution / Peter N. Stearns -- Coming to terms with child labor / Hugh D. Hindman -- Coming to terms with child labor: the historical role of education / Alec Fyfe -- Coming to terms with child labor: history of child welfare / Bengt Sandin -- Coming to terms with child labor: the role of technology / Carolyn Tuttle -- Child labor in the developed nations today / Phil Mizen -- Global trade and child labor / Drusilla K. Brown -- Visual representations of child labor in the west / George Dimock --

Section 3. Less developed regions of the world -- Worst forms of child labor / Hugh D. Hindman -- Worst forms of child labor: agriculture / Alec Fyfe -- Worst forms of child labor: child domestic labor / Jonathan Blagbrough -- Worst forms of child labor: street children and street trades / David Maidment -- Worst forms of child labor: commercial sexual exploitation of children / Carmen Madrinan -- Worst forms of child labor: children and war / Zoë Marriage -- Worst forms of child labor: child bonded labor / Garance Genicot -- The puzzle of "idle" children, neither in school nor performing economic activity / Mario Biggeri, ... [et al.] -- Child labor policy for developing nations / Deborah Levison -- Education and child labor: a global perspective / Ranjan Ray -- Special health risks of child labor / Anaclaudia Gastal Fassa and David H. Wegman --

Section 4. Action against child labor -- The United Nations and UNICEF / Alec Fyfe -- Millennium development goals / Jaap E. Doek -- International Labor Organization (ILO) and the International Program for the Elimination of Child Labor (IPEC) / G.K. Lieten -- The role of nongovernmental organizations / Mike Dottridge -- The role of trade unions / Alec Fyfe -- Organization of working children / William E. Myers -- The economics of consumer actions against products with child labor content / Eric V. Edmonds -- Global march against child labor / Risto F. Harma --

Part II. Sub-Saharan Africa -- Section 1. Introduction -- Child labor in postcolonial Africa / Michel Bonnet -- Child labor in colonial Africa / Beverly Grier -- HIV/AIDS and child labor in Sub-Saharan Africa / Anita Amorim and Nadine Osseiran -- Influence of orphanhood on children's schooling and labor: evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa / Lorenzo Guarcello, ... [et al.] -- Children's work among traditional healers in Africa / Eddy Joshua Walakira -- Child labor unions in Africa / G.K. Lieten --

Section 2. Western Africa -- Trafficking for labor exploitation in West and Central Africa / Albertine de Lange -- Koranic schools and child labor in West Africa / Mahir Saul -- Burkina Faso : Child labor in Burkina Faso / Albertine de Lange -- Côte d'Ivoire : Children's work, child domestic labor, and child trafficking in Côte d'Ivoire / Yacouba Diallo -- Gambia -- Ghana : Child Labor in Ghana / Martin Verlet -- Guinea-Bissau -- Mali : Child labor in Mali / Richard Marcoux -- Niger -- Nigeria / Child labor in Nigeria / Risto F. Harma ; Children in street trading in Nigeria / A.A. Aderinto ; Child labor in Nigeria: historical perspective / Adelaja Odutola Odukoya -- Senegal : Child labor in Senegal: contemporary and historical perspective / Loretta E. Bass -- Sierra Leone -- Togo --

Section 3. Middle Africa -- Child soldiers in the Great Lakes Region of Africa / Alison Dilworth -- Angola -- Cameroon : Child labor in Cameroon / Roger A. Tsafack Nanfosso -- Central African Republic -- Chad --

Section 4. Eastern Africa -- Burundi -- Ethiopia : Child labor in Ethiopia: overview and policy challenges / Tassew Woldehanna and Nicola Jones ; Attending school, learning, and child work in Ethiopia / Arjun Singh Bedi and Assefa Admassie -- Kenya : Child labor in Kenya / Janet Wamsley ; Children and forced labor in colonial Kenya / Opolot Okia -- Madagascar -- Malawi -- Rwanda -- Tanzania : Child labor in Tanzania / Karen A. Porter -- Uganda : Child labor in Uganda / Eddy Joshua Walakira -- Zambia : Child labor in Zambia / Peter Jensen -- Zimbabwe : Working children in Zimbabwe / Michael Bourdillon -- Child labor in colonial Zimbabwe / Beverly Grier --

Section 5. Southern Africa -- Lesotho -- Namibia -- South Africa : Mapping children's work in South African history / Susan Levine -- Swaziland --

Part III. Latin America and Caribbean -- Section 1. Introduction : Child labor in Latin America / Walter Alarcón Glasinovich -- History of childhood and child labor in Latin America / Elizabeth Anne Kuznesof -- Child labor and education in Latin America / Mirellise Vazquez -- Children's social movements in Latin America / Marten van den Berge --

Section 2. South America -- Worst forms of child labor in the Andes region / Marten van den Berge -- Bolivia : Child labor in Bolivia / Marten van den Berge -- Brazil : Recent history of child labor in Brazil / Ethel V. Kosminsky ; Child street vendors in Brazil / Ana Lúcia Kassouf and Andrea R. Ferro ; Prostitution and commercial sexual exploitation of children and adolescents in Brazil / Leandro Feitosa Andrade and Fúlvia Rosenberg ; Special health risks to child workers in Brazil / Anaclaudia Gastal Fassa and David H. Wegman ; The intergenerational persistence of child labor in Brazil / André Portela Souza ; Child labor labeling in Brazil / Andres Pablo Falconer ; Development of child labor law in Brazil / Oris de Oliveira ; The history of child labor in Brazil / Ana Lúcia Kassouf and Marcelo Justus dos Santos ; Orphans and the transition from slave to free labor in northeast Brazil / Joan Meznar -- Chile -- Colombia : Child labor in Colombia / Cármen Elisa Flórez and Diana Hincapié -- Ecuador -- Guyana -- Paraguay -- Peru -- Venezuela --

Section 3. Central America -- Belize -- Costa Rica -- El Salvador : Child labor in El Salvador / Lorenzo Guarcello, Gabriella Breglia, and Scott Lyon -- Guatemala : Child labor in Guatemala / Lorenzo Guarcello, Gabriella Breglia, and Scott Lyon -- Honduras : Child labor in Honduras / Adrienne Pine -- Mexico : Child labor in Mexico / Maja Pleic, Felicia Marie Knaul, and Albert Berry ; Street children in Mexico / Felipe Peralta ; PROGRESA/Oportunidades: Mexico's school stipend program / Abhra Roy ; Impact of temporary labor migration on schooling among Mexican children / Grace Kao ; History of child labor in Mexico / Marcos T. Aguila and Mariano E. Torres B. -- Nicaragua : Child labor in Nicaragua / Luis Serra -- Panama --

Section 4. Caribbean -- Dominican Republic -- Haiti : Child labor in Haiti / Tone Sommerfelt and Jon Pedersen -- Jamaica : Child labor in Jamaica / Leith L. Dunn ; Commercial sexual exploitation of children in Jamaica / Leith L. Dunn --

Part IV. North America -- Section 1. Canada : Child labor in Canada / Nancy Janovicek ; Children in Canadian mining / Elizabeth Perry ; Nation builders: orphans in the Canadian wilderness / Gail H. Corbett ; Evolution of child welfare policy in Canada / Maureen Baker --

Section 2. United States -- History of child labor : The work of enslaved children in the United States / Wilma King ; Orphan trans / Laura L. Leavitt ; History of children in U.S. coal mining / Julia E. Offiong ; Child labor in the American glass industry / Ken Fones-Wolf ; Child labor in American textiles / Hugh D. Hindman ; Child labor in commercialized agriculture, 1890-1966 / Mary Lyons-Barrett ; Evolution of U.S. child labor policy / Hugh D. Hindman ; Florence Kelley and the National Consumers League / Laura S. Abrams ; National Child Labor Committee / James DelRosso ; Felix Adler / James DelRosso ; Edgar Gardner Murphy / James DelRosso ; Lewis Wickes Hine / Tom Beck ; The U.S. Children's Bureau / Kriste Lindenmeyer -- Child Labor and the United States today : Children in the fields: America's hidden child labor problem / Reid Maki ; Twenty-first-century adolescence in America / Jeremy Staff and Jeylan T. Mortimer ; American students' activism against global child labor / Chivy Sok --

Part V. Europe -- Section 1. Introduction : Europe: an introduction and overview / Colin Heywood -- European proto-industrialization / David Levine -- European industrialization and child labor / Marjatta Rahikainen -- History of education in Europe: schooling and child labor in Europe since the Reformation / Harry Haue -- Apprenticeship practices in Europe / Hal Hansen -- Church and child labor: Catholicism / Timothy Kelly -- Church and child labor: Protestant Reformation / Thomas Max Safley --

Section 2. United Kingdom -- History of child labor in Britain / Peter Kirby -- Pauper apprenticeship in England / Alysa Levene -- History of child labor in coal mining in Britain / Peter Kirby -- Child labor in the United Kingdom: Textiles / Carolyn Tuttle -- Child work in agriculture in Britain / Nicola Verdon -- Street children and street trades in the United Kingdom / Heather Shore -- Chimney Sweep: cultural icon / Heather Shore -- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, seventh Earl of Shaftesbury / Deborah J. Schmidle -- National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children / Deborah J. Schmidle -- Child work and child labor in the United Kingdom today / Phil Mizen --

Section 3. Northern Europe -- History of child labor in the Nordic countries / Ellen Schrumpf -- Family policy in the Nordic countries / Pirjo Markkola -- Denmark : Child labor in the Danish textile industry / Jeppe Toensberg -- Finland : History of child labor in Finland / Marjatta Rahikainen -- Sweden : History of child labor in Sweden / Lars Olsson ; Financial incentives in child auctions in nineteenth-century Sweden / Sofia Lundberg ; Child work and child labor in Sweden today / Kristina Engwall and Ingrid Söderlind --

Section 4. Western Europe -- Belgium : Child labor in Belgium / Peter Scholliers ; Child labor in the Ghent cotton mills, nineteenth century / Peter Scholliers -- France : France: a historical overview / Colin Heywood -- Germany : History of child labor in Germany: an overview / Thomas Max Safley ; New risks and new opportunities in school-to-work transition: the transformation of the German apprenticeship system / Jan Skrobanek, Birgit Reissig, and Nora Gaupp -- The Netherlands : Child labor in the Netherlands during the proto- and early industrialization / Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk ; Work, education, and discipline: attitudes toward child labor in the Netherlands, 1500 to 1875 / Cor Smit ; Development of child labor policy in the Netherlands since 1874 / Stan Meuwese ; Newspaper delivery in the Netherlands / Stan Meuwese --

Section 5. Southern Europe -- Albania : Exploitation of Albanian children in Greece / Mirela Shuteriqi -- Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Portugal : History of child labor in Portugal / Pedro Goulart ; Child labor in Portugal today / Martin Eaton and Pedro Goulart ; Child labor in Portuguese textiles / Martin Eaton -- Spain : Children's work in Spanish textiles during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Enriqueta Camps --

Section 6. Eastern Europe -- Romania : Child labor in Romania / Maria-Carmen Pantea -- Russia : History of child labor in Imperial Russia / Boris B. Gorshkov ; Child labor in the Russian textile industry / Dave Pretty ; Children in sex trades in Russia / Anna Yakovleva ; Position of children and child labor in Russia today / Valeriy A. Mansurov and Anastasiya Batykova --

Part VI. North Africa and the Middle East (Western Asia) -- Section 1. North Africa : History of child labor in North Africa / Heidi Morrison -- Algeria : History of child labor in Algeria / Heidi Morrison -- Libya : History of child labor in Libya / Heidi Morrison -- Morocco : History of child labor in Morocco / Heidi Morrison ; Morocco: why children go to work instead of school / Bernard Schlemmer ; The pyjama trail affair: a case study in child labor / Fatima Badry ; Small maids in Morocco / Tone Sommerfelt -- Tunisia / History of child labor in Tunisia / Heidi Morrison --

Section 2. Middle East -- Azerbaijan : Child labor in Azerbaijan / Ryan Womack -- Egypt : Child labor in Egypt / Heidi Morrison -- Georgia : Child labor in Georgia / Nona Tsotseria -- Iran : Child labor in Iran / Reza Jalali -- Iraq -- Jordan : Child labor and child growth in Jordan / Nick Spencer and Hasan Hawamdeh -- Kuwait : Selling girls in Kuwait / Tom O'Neill -- Turkey : Child labor in Turkey / Yakin Ertürk ; Legal protection of working children in Turkey / Esin Konanç and Onur Dinç ; Primary education and child labor in Turkey / Cennet Engin-Demir ; Sexual exploitation of the girl child: juvenile commercial sex workers in Istanbul / Esin Kuntay and Guliz Erginsoy -- United Arab Emirates : Children trafficked to the Gulf States for use as camel jockeys / Catherine Turner -- Yemen : Child labor in Yemen / Lorenzo Guarcello, Gabriella Breglia, and Scott Lyon --

Part VII. Central and South Asia -- Section 1. Central Asia : Kazakhstan : Child labor in Kazakhstan / Ryan Womack -- Uzbekistan --

Section 2. South Asia -- Rural child labor in South Asia / Afke De Groot -- Bangladesh : Bangladeshi garment industry: from the Harkin Bill to the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association / Munir Quddus -- India : Economic history of modern India / Sharmistha Self ; Evolution of the law on child labor in India / Usha Ramanathan ; Children in India's carpet industry / Shahid Ashraf ; Children in India's glass industry / Shahid Ashraf ; Children in India's tea industry / Shahid Ashraf ; Children of Kolkata Slums / Subrata Sankar Bagchi ; Children of Delhi slums / Arup Mitra ; Working children's unions in India / Heike Roschanski ; Child labor and HIV and AIDS in India / Indrani Gupta ; Education and child labor in India / Sharmistha Self ; Challenges for tribal schooling in India / Afke De Groot -- Nepal : Child labor in Nepal / Bal Kumar KC ; Child labor in the Tibeto-Nepalese carpet industry / Tom O'Neill ; Social labeling programs in Nepal's carpet industry / Tom O'Neill ; Trafficking of child workers in Nepal / Govind Subedi ; The recruitment and use of children in Nepal's armed conflict / Charu Lata Hogg -- Pakistan : Child labor in Pakistan / Zarina Jillani ; Child work and schooling costs in Pakistan / Arjun Singh Bedi and Gautam Hazarika ; Child labor policy and legislation in Pakistan / Zarina Jillani ; Child labor in Pakistan's export industries / Saadia Toor -- Sri Lanka : Forcible recruitment of children in Sri Lanka / Charu Lata Hogg --

Part VIII. East Asia and the Pacific -- Section 1. East Asia : China : Child labor in China: an overview / G.K. Lieten and Hugh D. Hindman ; Education in the People's Republic of China / Andrew B. Kipnis ; History of child labor in China / Joshua H. Howard ; History of Chinese education / Irving Epstein -- Japan : History of child labor in Japan / Atsuko Fujino Kakinami ; Education and child labor in Japan / Richard Grabowski and Sharmistha Self -- Mongolia --

Section 2. Southeast Asia -- Cambodia : Child labor in Cambodia / Lorenzo Guarcello, Gabriella Breglia, and Scott Lyon -- Indonesia : Child labor in Indonesia / Sharon Bessell ; Child labor in subcontracting sectors of Indonesia's garment and footwear industries / Indrasari Tjandraningsih ; Children and work in Indonesia: historical overview / Ben White ; Development of child labor policy in Indonesia / Indrasari Tjandraningsih -- Myanmar : Child soldiers in Myanmar / Research staff at the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers -- Philippines : Education and child labor in the Philippines / Chris Sakellariou ; Child labor on sugarcane plantations in the Philippines / Jennifer de Boer ; Child domestic work in the Philippines / Yuko Kitada ; Children in Muro-Ami fishing / Harold Olofson ; Children in the Philippines gold-mining industry / Rosario M. Espino ; The role of NGOs in the Philippines / Yuko Kitada -- Thailand : Child labor in Thailand / Chantana Banpasirichote Wungaeo -- Vietnam : Social transformation and children's work in Vietnam / Nguyen Van Chinh ; Street children in Vietnam / Pietro Masina --

Section 3. Oceania

Australia : Development of child welfare policy in Australia / Shurlee Swain ; Aboriginal child labor in colonial Australia / Shirleene Robinson

New Zealand : Child labor in New Zealand / Jeanine Graham.