Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction / Beatrice Hungerland, Manfred Liebel, Brian Milne and Anne Wihstutz -- Theoretical approaches -- A feminist economist's approach to children's work / Deborah Levison -- Working children and the cultural perception of childhood / Zandra Pedraza-Gómez -- Harmed by work or developing through work? Issues in the study of psychosocial impacts / Martin Woodhead -- The reintegration of children into the adult world of work: ominous sign or cause for optimism? / Dieter Kirchhfer -- Care and domestic work -- Child domestic workers in Zimbabwe / Michael Bourdillon -- Negotiating gender identities: domestic work of Indian children in Britain and in India / Vinod Chandra -- The significance of care and domestic work to children: a German portrayal / Anne Wihstutz -- 'Helping at home': the concept of childhood and work among the Nahuas of Tlaxcala, Mexico / Martha Areli Ramírez Sánchez -- Work and competence -- Children's work as preparation for adulthood: a British perspective / Jim McKechnie and Sandy Hobbs -- Working children in Fez (Morocco): relationship between knowledge and strategies -- For social and professional integration / Bernard Schlemmer -- Working and growing up in America: myths and realities / Jeylan T. Mortimer -- Between prohibition and praise: some hidden aspects of children's work in affluent societies / Manfred Liebel -- Participation of working children -- Children's work as 'participation': thoughts on ethnographic data in Lima and the Algarve / Antonella Invernizzi -- Child employment in Northern Ireland: myths and realities / Madeleine Leonard -- Vocabularies, motives and meanings-school-age workers in Britain: towards a synthesis? / Christopher Pole -- Child work and child labour in Italy: the point of view of the children / Maria Teresa Tagliaventi -- Work: a way to participative autonomy for children / Beatrice Hungerland -- Citizenship and working children's movements and organisations -- The stakes of children's participation in Africa: the African movement of working children and youth 179 / Hamidou Coly -- Working with working children in India / Nandana Reddy -- Dialogue and empowerment for change: the influence of organisations of working children in Southeast Asia on the social status of working children / Dominique Pierre Plateau -- Do the participation articles in the convention on the rights of the child (CRC) present us with a recipe for children's citizenship? / Brian Milne -- Challenges and perspectives for research and policy -- Challenges for social research and action with working children / Virginia Morrow -- Some suggestions for social research on working children's initiatives / William E. Myers -- The balance model reconsidered: changing perceptions of child employment / Sandy Hobbs and Jim McKechnie -- Exploring children's work through pictures / Phil Mizen.

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