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This work explores the difficult conceptual and public policy issues involved in child labour. The contributors demonstrate its prevalence in both industrial and developing countries, and its rapid growth under the twin pressures of poverty and the drive for cheaper production. 1. General Introduction – Bernard Schlemmer Part I: The Economic and Social Context of Child Labour 2. Introduction: A History of Exploited Children in Europe – Alessandro Stella Child Labour in the Current Economic System 3. The Economy and Child Labour: An Overview – Claude Meillassoux 4. Child Labour and the Export Sector in the Indian Carpet Industry – Mohini Gulrajani 5. Growing up in Ghana: Deregulaton and the Employment of Children – Martin Verlet 6. Living and Working Conditions: Child Labour in the Coal Mines of Colombia – Beatriz S. Cespedes Sastre and Maria-Isabel Zarama V Meyer 7. Stigmatisation versus Identity: Child Street Workers in Mexico – Elvira Taracena and Maria-Luisa Tavera Child Labour in Society 8. Public Policy, Society and Child Labour – Francis Gendreau 9. Why is Child Labour Tolerated? The Case of Brazil – Lia Fukui 10. The Social Exclusion of Children in circumstances of Rapid Economic Growth: Working Children in Thailand – Chantana Banpasirichote 11. The Public Policy Problem: Child Labour and the Law in India – Usha Ramanathan 12. Debates on Poor Children in Brazil: Between Marginalisation and Premature Labour – Rosilene Alvim Part II: The Structure and Dynamics of Exploitation 13. Introduction: Child Labour in the light of Bonded Labour – Michel Bonnet The Domination of Fathers as the Typical Social Relationship 14. Paternal Domination: The Typical Relationship Conditioning the Exploitation of Children – Alain Morice 15. Child Employment in a Capitalist Labour Market: The British Case – Michael Lavalette 16. Coffee Beans and the Seeds of Labour: Child Labour on Guatemalan Plantations – Charles-Edouard de Suremain 17. The Exploitation of Apprentices in Togo – Yves Marguerat 18. Apprenticeship in France: A Parallel Case in an Industrialised Society – Bernard Garet From Socialisation through Work to Exploitation for a Profit 19. Family versus the Logic of the Market – Robert Cabanes 20. The Demand for Labour within the Household: Child Labour in Togo – Marie-France Lange 21. The Household Economy and Commercial Exploitation of Children’s Work: the Case of Kerala – Olga Nieuwenhuys 22. The Disintegrating Social Fabric: Child Labour and Socialisation in Senegal – Serigne Mor Mbaye and Abdou Salam Fall 23. ‘Unexploited’ Labour: Social Transition in Madagascar – Bodo Ravololomanga and Bernard Schlemmer 24. Looking Ahead: A General Conclusion – Claude Meillassoux
