Working to be someone : child focused research and practice with working children

270 Pages·2007·1.34 MB·English

by  Beatrice Hungerland

Working to Be Someone
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Working to Be Someone
Child Focused Research and Practice
with Working Children
Edited by Beatrice Hungerland, Manfred Liebel,
Brian Milne and Anne Wihstutz

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Contents
INTRODUCTION 9
BeatriceHungerland,ManfredLiebel,BrianMilneandAnneWihstutz
Part 1: Theoretical Approaches
1. AFeministEconomist’sApproachtoChildren’sWork 17
DeborahLevison,Universityof Minnesota,MN
2. WorkingChildrenandtheCulturalPerceptionof Childhood 23
ZandraPedraza-Gómez,UniversidaddelosAndes,Colombia
3. HarmedbyWorkorDevelopingThroughWork?:
IssuesintheStudyof PsychosocialImpacts 31
MartinWoodhead,OpenUniversity,MiltonKeynes,UK
4. TheReintegrationof ChildrenintotheAdultWorldof Work:
OminousSignorCauseforOptimism? 43
DieterKirchhöfer,Universityof Potsdam,Germany
Part 2: Care and Domestic Work
5. ChildDomesticWorkersinZimbabwe:Children’sPerspectives 55
MichaelBourdillon,Universityof Zimbabwe,Harare
6. NegotiatingGenderIdentities:DomesticWorkof Indian
ChildreninBrit ainandinIndia 67
VinodChandra,IndianInstituteof Technology,Khargpur
7. TheSignificanceof CareandDomesticWorktoChildren:
AGermanPortrayal 77
AnneWihstutz,Martin-LutherUniversityHalleWittenberg
8. ‘HelpingatHome’:TheConceptof ChildhoodandWork
AmongtheNahuasof Tlaxcala,Mexico 87
MarthaAreliRamírezSánchez,UniversidadIberoamericana,
MexicoCity
Part 3: Work and Competence
9. Children’sWorkasPreparationforAdulthood:
ABritishPerspective 99
JimMcKechnieandSandyHobbs,Universityof Paisley,UK
10. WorkingChildreninFez,Morocco:RelationshipBetween
KnowledgeandStrategiesforSocialandProfessionalIntegration 109
BernardSchlemmer,InstitutedeRecherchepourleDéveloppement,France
11. WorkingandGrowingUpinAmerica:MythsandRealities 117
JeylanT.Mortimer,Universityof Minnesota,MN
12. BetweenProhibitionandPraise:SomeHiddenAspects
of Children’sWorkinAffluentSocieties 123
ManfredLiebel,TechnicalUniversityof Berlin,Germany
Part 4: Participation of Working Children
13. Children’sWorkas‘Participation’:ThoughtsonEthnographic
DatainLimaandtheAlgarve 135
AntonellaInvernizzi,SwanseaUniversity,UK
14. ChildEmploymentinNorthernIreland:MythsandRealities 145
MadeleineLeonard,Queen’sUniversity,Belfast
15. Vocabularies,MotivesandMeanings–School-AgeWorkers
inBritain:TowardsaSynthesis? 151
ChristopherPole,Universityof Leicester,UK
16. ChildWorkandChildLabourinItaly:ThePointof View
of theChildren 161
MariaTeresaTagliaventi,IstitutodegliInnocenti,Florence

17. Work–AWaytoParticipativeAutonomyforChildren 167
BeatriceHungerland,Universityof AppliedSciencesMagdeburg-Stendal,
Germany
Part 5: Citizenship and Working Children’s
Movements and Organisations
18. TheStakesof Children’sParticipationinAfrica:TheAfrican
Movementof WorkingChildrenandYouth 179
HamidouColy,streetworkerandcollaboratorof theAfricanMovement
of WorkingChildrenandFabrizioTerenzio,YouthActionTeam,ENDA,
Senegal
19. WorkingwithWorkingChildreninIndia 187
NandanaReddy,ConcernedforWorkingChildren,India
20. DialogueandEmpowermentforChange:TheInfluence
of Organisationsof WorkingChildreninSoutheastAsia
ontheSocialStatusof WorkingChildren 197
DominiquePierrePlateau,SavetheChildren,Sweden
21. DotheParticipationArticlesintheConventionontheRights
of theChildPresentUswithaRecipeforChildren’sCitizenship? 205
BrianMilne,consultantresearcherandtrainerinChildren’sRights,UK
Part 6: Challenges and Perspectives
for Research and Policy
22. ChallengesforSocialResearchandActionwithWorkingChildren 213
VirginiaMorrow,Universityof London
23. SomeSuggestionsforSocialResearchonWorking
Children’sInitiatives 219
WilliamE.Myers,Universityof California,CA
24. TheBalanceModelReconsidered:ChangingPerceptions
of ChildEmployment 225

SandyHobbsandJimMcKechnie
25. ExploringChildren’sWorkThroughPictures 233
PhilMizen,Universityof Warwick,UK
BIBLIOGRAPHY 243
THECONTRIBUTORS 259
SUBJECTINDEX 261
AUTHORINDEX 267
List of boxes
Box10.1 Whodecidestostopschooling 113
Box24.1 Costsandbenefitsofwork 227
Box24.2 Frameworkforresearch 227
Box24.3 Channelsofinfluence 228
List of figures
Figure25.1 Johnonthefamilyfarm 235
Figure25.2 Boxesofassembledcomponentsreadyforreturntothefactory 235
Figure25.3 A‘home-made’deviceforassemblingcomponentparts 236
Figure25.4 Thebeercellarofapublichouse 237
Figure25.5 Pickinguprubbishbyhand 238
Figure25.6 Cleaningdesks 239
Figure25.7 Dryinghair 239
Figure25.8 Answeringthephone 240
Figure25.9 Tidyingthetowels 240
Figure25.10 Washinghair 240
Figure25.11 Greetingacustomer 240
Figure25.12 Beforework 241
Figure25.13 Afterwork 241
List of tables
Table4.1 Thedimensionsofthefragmentationofworkandlearning 46
Table4.2 Traditionalandfragmented(non-Fordist)typesofwork 47

Table9.1 Training 101
Table9.2 Currentjobtypeandtraining 102
Table9.3 Training14–15-year-oldsvs.16–17-year-olds:currentworkers 103
Table10.1 Socialandprofessionalintegrationbylevel
ofeducationalattainment:totalsamplepopulation 112
Table10.2 Socialandprofessionalintegrationbylevel
ofeducationalattainment:littleornoschooling 113
Table15.1 Maintypeofemploymentatfirstinterview 153