Children’s Work in African Agriculture

The Harmful and the Harmless
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book reframes 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.

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.

Contributor: Mary Wickenden (Contributions by), Rosilin Bock (Contributions by), Dorte Thorsen (Contributions by), Rachel Sabates-Wheeler (Edited by), Felix Asante (Contributions by), Emmanuel Boamah Frimpong (Contributions by), Tessa Lewin (Contributions by), James Sumberg (Edited by), Irene Egyir (Contributions by), Imogen Bellwood-Howard (Contributions by), Sara Humphreys (Contributions by), Keetie Roelen (Contributions by), Roy Maconachie (Contributions by), Neil Howard (Contributions by), Sam Okyere (Contributions by), Vicky Johnson (Contributions by), Abdulai Abubakari (Contributions by), Amy Warmington (Contributions by), Jodie Thorpe (Contributions by), Becky Mitchell (Contributions by), Giel Ton (Contributions by), Carolina Szyp (Contributions by), Thomas Yeboah (Contributions by), Máiréad Dunne (Contributions by), Inka Barnett (Contributions by)

Pages: 328

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