Author : Mary E. Williams
Publisher : Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,87 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Child labor
ISBN : 9780737700022
This anthology focuses on the exploitation of the least powerful members of the labor force, primarily women and children.
Author : Ronald B. Taylor
Publisher : Beacon Press (MA)
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 30,3 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Study of the social implications of child labour among migrant workers in the USA, commenting on violations of labour legislation in respect of minimum wage, minimum age and working conditions for young workers in the rural worker force - includes interviews with migrant workers (incl. Minority group workers) and their families, and covers living conditions, poverty, access to education, occupational health and occupational safety, farmers' attitudes, etc. Bibliography pp. 206 to 212, illustrations and references.
Author : Hugh D Hindman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 35,54 MB
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1315290839
Despite its decline throughout the advanced industrial nations, child labor remains one of the major social, political, and economic concerns of modern history, as witnessed by the many high-profile stories on child labor and sweatshops in the media today. This work considers the issue in three parts. The first section discusses child labor as a social and economic problem in America from an historical and theoretical perspective. The second part presents child labor as National Child Labor Committee investigators found it in major American industries and occupations, including coal mines, cotton textile mills, and sweatshops in the early 1900s. Finally, the concluding section integrates these findings and attempts to apply them to child labor problems in America and the rest of the world today.
Author :
Publisher : ILO/IPEC
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 20,22 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Child labor
ISBN : 9221131130
[Introduction] This document presents the results of ILO research on the global magnitude of child labour. It introduces new global estimates for economic activity by children and child labour in the sense of ILO Conventions Nos 138 and 182. There are no national data to be found in this document. The lowest aggregate level presented are the major world regions. All estimates are for the benchmark year 2000. Child labour is a sensitive subject and numbers on its magnitude play an important role in global policy-making and advocacy efforts. The research was conducted in acute awareness of this responsability and used well-proven statistical methodologies in an attempt to keep error margins to a minimum. All sources, underlying definitions and methodological steps are explained in detail. The document is devided into three main sections. Section 1 presents the main findings. Sections 2 and 3 introduce definitions and methodologies. Data are presented in tables and charts
Author : Jo Becker
Publisher :
Page : 69 pages
File Size : 39,28 MB
Release : 2021
Category : COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-
ISBN :
"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.
Author : Guillermo C. Jimenez
Publisher :
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 20,9 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Social responsibility of business
ISBN :
"This textbook provides an innovative, internationally oriented approach to the teaching of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and business ethics. Drawing on case studies involving companies and countries around the world, the textbook explores the social, ethical, and business dynamics underlying CSR in such areas as global warming, genetically modified organisms (GMO) in food production, free trade and fair trade, anti-sweatshop and living-wage movements, organic foods and textiles, ethical marketing practices and codes, corporate speech and lobbying, and social enterprise. The book is designed to encourage students and instructors to challenge their own assumptions and prejudices by stimulating a class debate based on each case study"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Ann Manheimer
Publisher : Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 28,5 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN :
Abuses of child and adult workers have led to protests, boycotts, and treaties to end child labor and sweatshops. Everyone agrees the worst practices must be stopped. But debate rages over the underlying causes, and whether workplace exploitation is an inevitable step in economic development or an avoidable human rights violation.
Author : Christine Watkins
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,79 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780737748741
Presents different viewpoints on the issues of child labor and sweatshops.
Author : Gary Wiener
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 26,45 MB
Release : 2009-06-05
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 0737743301
Present your readers with a truly global review of the issue of child labor. Essays are collected from highly respected international sources, sharing viewpoints from places such as Bolivia, West Africa, South Asia, Bangladesh, Uzbekistan, Ireland, and Brazil. Readers will learn about children who work in coal mines, the sex trade, agriculture, and other industries. Essential essays share information regarding the responsibility of corporations to stop child labor. Essay sources include The Anti-Slavery Society, Global March Against Child Labour, The Child Workers in Asia Foundation, International Labour Organization, and the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers.
Author : Chaim M. Rosenberg
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 12,7 MB
Release : 2013-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1476602727
At the close of the 19th century, more than 2 million American children under age 16--some as young as 4 or 5--were employed on farms, in mills, canneries, factories, mines and offices, or selling newspapers and fruits and vegetables on the streets. The crusaders of the Progressive Era believed child labor was an evil that maimed the children, exploited the poor and suppressed adult wages. The child should be in school till age 16, they demanded, in order to become a good citizen. The battle for and against child labor was fought in the press as well as state and federal legislatures. Several federal efforts to ban child labor were struck down by the Supreme Court and an attempt to amend the Constitution to ban child labor failed to gain enough support. It took the Great Depression and New Deal legislation to pass the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (and receive the support of the Supreme Court). This history of American child labor details the extent to which children worked in various industries, the debate over health and social effects, and the long battle with agricultural and industrial interests to curtail the practice.
