Children’s Work in African Agriculture: The Harmful and the Harmless

Media type: E-Book

Title: Children’s Work in African Agriculture : The Harmful and the Harmless

Contains: Front Matter
Contents
List of Figures, Tables and Boxes
List of Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Children’s Work in African Agriculture: An Introduction
Theorizing ‘Harm’ in Relation to Children’s Work
Understanding Children’s Harmful Work: The Methodological Landscape
Education and Work: Children’s Lives in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa
Disabled Children and Work
Value Chain Governance and Children’s Work in Agriculture
Blurred Definitions and Imprecise Indicators: Rethinking Social Assistance for Children’s Work
Children’s Work in Ghana: Policies and Politics
Children’s Work in Shallot Production on the Keta Peninsula, South-Eastern Ghana
Children’s Work in West African Cocoa Production: Drivers, Contestations and Critical Reflections
Children’s Harmful Work in Ghana’s Lake Volta Fishery: Beyond Discourses of Child Trafficking
Children’s Work in African Agriculture: Ways Forward
Index

Contributor: Abubakari, Abdulai [Contributor]; Asante, Felix Ankomah [Contributor]; Barnett, Inka [Contributor]; Bellwood-Howard, Imogen [Contributor]; Bock, Rosilin [Contributor]; Bourdillon, Michael [Contributor]; Dunne, Máiréad [Contributor]; Egyir, Irene [Contributor]; Frimpong Boamah, Emmanuel [Contributor]; Howard, Neil [Contributor]; Humphreys, Sara [Contributor]; Johnson, Vicky [Contributor]; Lewin, Tessa [Contributor]; Maconachie, Roy [Contributor]; Mitchell, Rebecca [Contributor]; Okyere, Samuel [Contributor]; Roelen, Keetie [Contributor]; Sabates-Wheeler, Rachel [Contributor]; Sabates-Wheeler, Rachel [Editor]; Sumberg, James [Contributor]; Sumberg, James [Editor]; Szyp, Carolina [Contributor]; Thorpe, Jodie [Contributor]; Thorsen, Dorte [Contributor]; Ton, Giel [Contributor]; Warmington, Amy [Contributor]; Wickenden, Mary [Contributor]; Yeboah, Thomas [Contributor]

Published: Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2023

Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (320 p.)

Language: English

DOI: 10.56687/9781529226072

ISBN: 9781529226072

Identifier:

Keywords: Agriculture Africa ; Child agricultural laborers Africa ; Child labor Africa ; Rural children Africa Social conditions ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries

Origination:

Footnote: In English

Description: EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Millions of children throughout Africa undertake many forms of farm and domestic work. Some of this work is for wages, some is on their family’s own small plots and some is forced and/or harmful. This book examines children’s involvement in such work. It argues that framing all children’s engagement in economic activity as ‘child labour’, with all the associated negative connotations, is problematic. This is particularly the case in Africa where many rural children must work to survive and where, the contributors argue, much of the work undertaken is not harmful. The conceptual and case-based chapters reframe the debate about children’s work and harm in rural Africa with the aim of shifting research, public discourse and policy so that they better serve the interest of rural children and their families

Access State: Open Access

Rights information: Attribution (CC BY)

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