Hidden Hands: International Perspectives on Children's Work and Labour (The Future of Childhood Series)

Hidden Hands focuses on a specific and neglected area of contemporary child welfare; that of children's paid work and labour. This book provides the first cross-cultural examination of children's productive activities, their relationship to children's broader social lives, and their implications for the child's education, welfare and well-being. The contributors look at the situation both here and overseas. They discuss issues including conflicts between schooling, education and work in the UK, child poverty, motivating children to work, children from ethnic minorities, the work and labour of children in industrialised countries and the situation in the US, Denmark, Germany and Russia. The growth in the study of childhood encompasses anthropology, sociology, social policy and social work, as well as education. This book will be of use in all of these areas. Book Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Contents......Page 5 List of figures......Page 10 List of tables......Page 11 Notes on contributors......Page 12 Acknowledgements......Page 15 Preface......Page 16 'Hidden hands': international perspectives on children's work and labour CHRISTOPHER POLE, PHILLIP MIZEN AND ANGELA BOLTON......Page 18 Children, work and labour in modern Britain......Page 24 Work and education: are they compatible for children and adolescents? JIM MCKECHNIE AND SANDY HOBBS......Page 26 Young people, poverty and part-time work SUE MIDDLETON AND JULIA LOUMIDIS......Page 41 Why be a school age worker? PHILLIP MIZEN, CHRISTOPHER POLE AND ANGELA BOLTON......Page 54 Chinese children's work roles in immigrant adaptation MIRI SONG......Page 72 Children's labour of love? Young carers and care work SAUL BECKER, CHRIS DEARDEN AND JO ALDRIDGE......Page 87 International perspectives on children's work and labour in the industrialised world......Page 106 School-work, paid work and the changing obligations of childhood JENS QVORTRUP......Page 108 Hidden sources of knowledge of children's work in Norway ANNE SOLBERG......Page 125 Adolescent part-time employment in the United States and Germany: diverse outcomes, contexts and pathways DAVID M. HANSEN, JEYLAN T. MORTIMER AND HELGA KRGER......Page 138 Child labour in the Federal Republic of Germany HEINZ INGENHORST......Page 156 Child labour in Russia VALERY MANSUROV......Page 166 Bibliography......Page 184 Index......Page 199 "Childhood is increasingly saturated by technology: from television to the Internet, video games to personal computers. The authors look at the interplay of children and technology and pose critical arguments for how we understand the nature of childhood in late modern society."--Jacket The essays in this volume examine the interplay of children and technology, and address critical questions about how we understand the nature of childhood in a modern technocratic society In debates about the work undertaken by children and adolescents, employment and education are often referred to as if they are mutually exclusive activities. Edited By Phillip Mizen, Christopher Pole And Angela Bolton. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [167]-181) And Index.