Author: Publisher: International Labour Organization
ISBN: 9221124169
Category : Child labor
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Child labour in fishing
A Future Without Child Labour
Author: Publisher: International Labour Organization
ISBN: 9221124169
Category : Child labor
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Child labour in fishing
A Future Without Child Labour
Author: Child Labour (Print)
Author: The World of Child Labor
Author: Hugh D HindmanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317453867
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 1033
Book Description
"The World of Child Labor" details both the current and historical state of child labor in each region of the world, focusing on its causes, consequences, and cures. Child labor remains a problem of immense social and economic proportions throughout the developing world, and there is a global movement underway to do away with it. Volume editor Hugh D. Hindman has assembled an international team of leading child labor scholars, researchers, policy-makers, and activists to provide a comprehensive reference with over 220 essays. This volume first provides a current global snapshot with overview essays on the dimensions of the problem and those institutions and organizations combating child labor. Thereafter the organization of the work is regional, covering developed, developing, and less developed regions of the world.The reference goes around the globe to document the contemporary and historical state of child labor within each major region (Africa, Latin and South America, North America, Europe, Middle East, Asia, and Oceania) including country-level accounts for nearly half of the world's nations. Country-level essays for more developed nations include historical material in addition to current issues in child labor. All country-level essays address specific facets of child labor problems, such as industries and occupations in which children commonly work, the national child welfare policy, occupational safety regulations, educational system, and laws, and often highlight significant initiatives against child labor.Current statistical data accompany most country-level essays that include ratifications to UN and ILO conventions, the Human Development Index, human capital indicators, economic indicators, and national child labor surveys conducted by the Statistical Information and Monitoring Program on Child Labor. "The World of Child Labor" is designed to be a self-contained, comprehensive reference for high school, college, and professional researchers. Maps, photos, figures, tables, references, and index are included.
Child Labor
Author: Sandy HobbsPublisher: ABC-CLIO
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
"Consult this handy work when you need accurate and up-to-date information on such subjects as the effects of work on children's education, the economic forces driving the exploitation of minors, campaigns and legislation against child employment, how the nineteenth-century English Factory Act was often circumvented, and more. The alphabetical entries are also referenced by category, and there are many citations of contemporary books and studies on specific subjects."--BOOK JACKET.
Monitoring International Labor Standards
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309091349
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
This new report provides a framework within which to assess compliance with core international labor standards and succeeds in taking an enormous step toward interpreting all relevant information into one central database. At the request of the Bureau of International Labor Affairs at the U.S. Department of Labor, the National Research Council's Committee on Monitoring International Labor Standards was charged with identifying relevant and useful sources of country-level data, assessing the quality of such data, identifying innovative measures to monitor compliance, exploring the relationship between labor standards and human capital, and making recommendations on reporting procedures to monitor compliance. The result of the committee's work is in two partsâ€"this report and a database structure. Together, they offer a first step toward the goal of providing an empirical foundation to monitor compliance with core labor standards. The report provides a comprehensive review of extant data sources, with emphasis on their relevance to defined labor standards, their utility to decision makers in charge of assessing or monitoring compliance, and the cautions necessary to understand and use the quantitative information.
A World for Children
Author: Peter de RuiterPublisher: Kit Pub
ISBN: 9789460220357
Category : Child labor
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Child labor is not a natural phenomenon. There seems to be a persistent misconception about child labor: first the poverty problem must be solved and then child labor will no longer be necessary. This is putting the cart before the horse. Poverty is in fact not the cause of child labor but it is a result of child labor. The fight against poverty must begin with the fight against child labor. Children can contribute to the development of their country, in the future, but only if they are given a chance to go to school now. In A World for Children: Growing Up Without Child Labour author and photographer Peter de Ruiter touches a raw nerve. During his travels in nine countries across three continents he began to understand the reality of child labor, how it originates and why. He noted the fallacies created to justify why children should work. He photographed the injustice the children are subjected to. And he offers solutions--the reader is given different ideas on how to personally take action against child labor. Children must go to school. They must play and learn and be allowed to develop their full potential. It is up to adults to create a world in which children can do exactly that: a world for children. Child labor is not a natural phenomenon. It was created by man and can be ended by man. A World for Children is targeted towards a wide audience: consumers, aid organization employees, politicians, students, children from about the age of ten and anyone who feels touched by the subject. The more than 400 gripping photos and the critical text spread just one message: stop child labor now.
World Report on Child Labour
Author: International Labour OfficePublisher: International Labor Office
ISBN:
Category : Age and employment
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
How can we reduce child labor in the unfavorable circumstances of a global economic slowdown? This new flagship report, the first in a series to be published annually by the ILO's International Program on the Elimination of Child Labor, brings together research on child labor and social protection, identifying policies that are designed to achieve multiple social goals. This report includes analyses of national child labor trends based on the latest survey data, discussions of the role of poverty and economic shocks in rendering households vulnerable to child labor, and detailed consideration of income transfers, public employment programs, social insurance, and microcredit initiatives as they have been implemented around the world. The report distills a broad range of research in economic and social policy and should be of interest to those looking for ways to combat poverty in the present and reduce its burden on the next generation.
"I Must Work to Eat"
Author: Jo BeckerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-
Languages : en
Pages : 69
Book Description
"The unprecedented economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, together with school closures and inadequate government assistance, is pushing children into exploitative and dangerous child labor. As their parents have lost jobs or income due to the pandemic and associated lockdowns, many children have entered the workforce to help their families survive. Many work long, grueling hours for little or no pay, often under hazardous conditions. Some report violence, harassment, and pay theft. [This report] is based on interviews conducted from January to March 2021 with 81 children, ages 8-17, in Ghana, Nepal, and Uganda.... The report examines the impact of the pandemic on children's rights, including their rights to education, to an adequate standard of living, and to protection from child labor, as well as government responses."--Page 4 of cover.
Combating Child Labour
Author: Assefa BequelePublisher: International Labour Organization
ISBN: 9789221063896
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
This work examines the developments in the campaign against child labour and the defence of the rights of children.