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Child labor
Title:
Child labor
Year Published:
2009
Physical Description:
271 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents:
The global problem of child labor. Child labor defined / Indian children make American goods / Myths about child labor abound / Child domestic workers are often mistreated / In South Asia, carpets are made using child labor / Fine carpets are not made using child labor / West African cocoa farmers use child slave labor / For Egyptian children, child labor is a way of life / The dangers of child labor. Kenyan children harvest crops in dangerous conditions / In Southeast Asia and elsewhere, child sex tourism is a significant problem / Columbia's girl prostitutes must be removed from danger / Where there is war, there are child soldiers / Bolivia's children labor in dangerous coal mines / England's working children need more protection / South Asian bonded child laborers suffer a wide range of abuses / Defending child labor. For Uzbekistan's poverty-stricken families, child labor is a necessary evil / Child work serves a need in many impoverished nations / Bangladeshi families suffer due to new child labor laws / Child labor is a necessary step on the way to national prosperity / Efforts to end child labor around the world. "Mainstreaming" is a successful approach to ending child labor / Banning child labor won't solve the problem / Campaigns to end child labor should focus on sending every child to school / Corporations must take responsibility for child labor / Ireland must join the fight against child labor / Brazil is leadi
ISBN:
9780737743302

9780737743296
Publisher:
Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2009.