1st Edition
Children's Lifeworlds Gender, Welfare and Labour in the Developing World
By Olga Nieuwenhuys
Copyright 1994
250 Pages
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Routledge
252 Pages
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Routledge
256 Pages
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Routledge
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Children's Lifeworlds examines how working children face the challenge of having to combine work with school in Kerala. Moving beyond the usual concern with child labour and welfare to a critical assessment of the daily work routine of children, this book questions how class and kinship, gender and household organization, state ideology and education influence and conceal the lives of children... Read more
1. The Children of the Rural Poor 2. Between the River and the Sea 3. Growing Up in Poomkara 4. Poomkara's Small-fry 5. Hanging by a Thread: Coir Making Girls 6. Fisheries' Invisible Nets 7. Coir Industry's Saving Angels 8. Conclusion: Rural Children's Exploitation
Biography
Olga Nieuwenhuys
`The book gives an insight into the complexity of any society, however small or poor and the difficulty of forecasting the impact of development initiatives. ... It is a book about child work in a poor rural village, and as such the research is fascinating and valuable.' - Development in Practice May 1995
