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Protecting Youth at Work

Author : National Research Council and Institute of Medicine

Publisher : National Academies Press

Page : 335 pages

File Size : 23,42 MB

Release : 1998-12-18

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 0309064139

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In Massachusetts, a 12-year-old girl delivering newspapers is killed when a car strikes her bicycle. In Los Angeles, a 14-year-old boy repeatedly falls asleep in class, exhausted from his evening job. Although children and adolescents may benefit from working, there may also be negative social effects and sometimes danger in their jobs. Protecting Youth at Work looks at what is known about work done by children and adolescents and the effects of that work on their physical and emotional health and social functioning. The committee recommends specific initiatives for legislators, regulators, researchers, and employers. This book provides historical perspective on working children and adolescents in America and explores the framework of child labor laws that govern that work. The committee presents a wide range of data and analysis on the scope of youth employment, factors that put children and adolescents at risk in the workplace, and the positive and negative effects of employment, including data on educational attainment and lifestyle choices. Protecting Youth at Work also includes discussions of special issues for minority and disadvantaged youth, young workers in agriculture, and children who work in family-owned businesses.



Children at Risk in the Workplace

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Employment and Housing Subcommittee

Publisher :

Page : 360 pages

File Size : 28,99 MB

Release : 1990

Category : Child labor

ISBN :

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Workers At Risk

Author : Dorothy Nelkin

Publisher : University of Chicago Press

Page : 238 pages

File Size : 11,85 MB

Release : 1986-04-15

Category : History

ISBN : 0226571289

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Workers at Risk is a powerful and moving documentary of workers routinely exposed to toxic chemicals. Products and services we all depend on—glass bottles, computers, processed foods and fresh flowers, dry cleaning, medicines, even sculpture and silkscreened toys—are produced by workers in constant contact with more than 63,000 commercial chemicals. For many of them, the risk of death is a way of life. More than seventy of them speak here of their jobs, their health, and the difficult choices they face in coming to grips with the responsibilities, risks, fears, and satisfactions of their work. Some struggle for information and acknowledgment of their health risks; others struggle to put out of their minds the dangers they know too well. Through extensive interviews, the authors have captured in these voices that double bind of the chemical worker: "If I had known that it would be that lethal, that it could give me or one of my children cancer, I would have refused to work. But it's a matter of survival and we just don't consider all these things. Meanwhile, we've got to make money to survive."



The Early Childhood Care and Education Workforce

Author : National Research Council

Publisher : National Academies Press

Page : 224 pages

File Size : 35,69 MB

Release : 2012-02-10

Category : Medical

ISBN : 030921937X

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Early childhood care and education (ECCE) settings offer an opportunity to provide children with a solid beginning in all areas of their development. The quality and efficacy of these settings depend largely on the individuals within the ECCE workforce. Policy makers need a complete picture of ECCE teachers and caregivers in order to tackle the persistent challenges facing this workforce. The IOM and the National Research Council hosted a workshop to describe the ECCE workforce and outline its parameters. Speakers explored issues in defining and describing the workforce, the marketplace of ECCE, the effects of the workforce on children, the contextual factors that shape the workforce, and opportunities for strengthening ECCE as a profession.



Children in Hazardous Work

Author : International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour

Publisher : International Labor Office

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 19,25 MB

Release : 2011

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 9789221249184

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This book provides an overview of the current state of knowledge on hazardous child labor, relating the negative and the positive, the problems, and the solutions. The first section samples research on what is known about how children are uniquely affected by workplace hazards and in what settings children are working in hazardous conditions. The second part of the book presents good practices that demonstrate different ways in which hazardous work can be reduced. It explores what can happen when leadership is taken by government, workers, employers, and the community. It also demonstrates that no one party can achieve the result on its own; ultimately, others must support, assist, and do their part. The examples selected here are practical ones that show promise for scaling up nationally and globally.



Turning Stones

Author : Marc Parent

Publisher : Ballantine Books

Page : 402 pages

File Size : 33,53 MB

Release : 1998-01-27

Category : Education

ISBN : 0449912353

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“An absorbing piece of narrative nonfiction . . . A rare glimpse of what it is like to man these front lines of the war on child abuse—and what it does to a person’s soul. . . . Devastating [and] mesmerizing.”—The Los Angeles Times Featuring a new Afterword by the author Why does an infant die of malnutrition? Why does an eight-year-old hold a knife to his brother’s throat? Or a mother push her cherished daughter twenty-three floors to her death? Marc Parent, a city caseworker, searched the streets—and his heart—for the answers, and shares them in this powerful, vivid, beautifully written book.



The Science of Adolescent Risk-Taking

Author : National Research Council

Publisher : National Academies Press

Page : 144 pages

File Size : 21,53 MB

Release : 2011-02-25

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 0309158524

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Adolescence is a time when youth make decisions, both good and bad, that have consequences for the rest of their lives. Some of these decisions put them at risk of lifelong health problems, injury, or death. The Institute of Medicine held three public workshops between 2008 and 2009 to provide a venue for researchers, health care providers, and community leaders to discuss strategies to improve adolescent health.



For Our Own Safety

Author : Michael A. Nunno

Publisher : C W L A Press

Page : 316 pages

File Size : 15,45 MB

Release : 2008

Category : Family & Relationships

ISBN :

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"For Our Own Safety is devoted to the subject of, and risks associated with, restraint and seclusion of children. This book is a collection of viewpoints presented at the international symposium, Examining the Safety of High-Risk Interventions for Children and Young People. It presents examination of the legal, ethical, and historical uses of physical restraints and seclusion. Also addressed in this collection are issues of safety, the psychological and emotional impacts of restraint, and guidelines for development and use, as well as clinical and organizational strategies likely to reduce use."--BOOK JACKET.