The place of work in African childhoods
By: edited by Michael Bourdillon, Georges M. Mutambwa = La place du travail chez les enfants africains / sous la direction de Michael Bourdillon, Georges M. Mutambwa
Contributors: Mulumbwa Mutambwa
Series: Codesria book series
Publisher: Codesria, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Dakar
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9782869785977
Subjects: Child labor
Other titles: Place du travail chez les enfants africains
Description: This book is about how work enters and affects the lives of children in Africa, taking for granted neither the traditional values surrounding children's work, nor the international standards against it. Many African societies nurture their children on the ingrained notion that children must work as part of their process of growing up. Children participate in their families and communities through the work they do in the house and in whatever else their families do. Such views are, however, antithetical to the dominant views in Europe and North America which see childhood as a time of freedom from responsibility and economic activity. These views have become so popular with the elites in other countries to the extent that they now drive international campaigns against 'child labour', and have been incorporated into what are now considered universal international standards and conventions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

English and French.