Child Labour in the Global Human Rights Regime
A Political Economy Perspective
This book can be opened with
Note on our eBooks and Audiobooks: you can read our eBooks (ePUB or PDF) and listen to audiobooks on the free Emerald Books app on iOS, Android, and desktop. Or read and listen on Emerald's online reader (ePUB eBooks and audiobooks only). To purchase a digital book you will need to create an account if you don’t already have one. After purchasing you will receive instructions on how to get started.
- Description
- Contents
- About
Child Labour in the Global Human Rights Regime is about children’s rights, child labour and child slavery in modern and modernizing societies in the context of what has been summarized as a well-established and increasingly sophisticated framework of treaties, institutions, networks and ambitious standards with respect to human rights.
The main focus is on the implications of children’s forced labour within compulsory systems of formal education, or schooling, that have been spreading around the world as an integral feature of economic, political and cultural globalization towards a single global-reach social space. It is argued that children’s forced educational labour appears to qualify as slave labour in terms of prevailing notions of ‘slavery’ in international human rights and humanitarian law, social policy frameworks, theoretical discourses, and widely held everyday, common sense perspectives.
Chapter 1. Child Coverture
- Chapter 2. Notions, Patterns and Trends
- Chapter 3. The Regime
- Chapter 4. Armed Conflict, Kidnapping and Child Labour
- Chapter 5. Educational Labour as Child Slavery
Paul Close is an Affiliate Researcher in the Childhood, Youth and Sport cluster of the School of Education, Childhood, Youth and Sport (ECYS), Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS), Open University (OU), UK.