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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809383003321

Titolo

Children and youth in the labour process in Africa / / edited by Osita Agbu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Dakar, : Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa

Oxford, U.K., : Distributed elsewhere by African Books Collective, c2009

ISBN

1-282-90129-X

9786612901294

2-86978-390-6

2-86978-346-9

2-86978-298-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (234 p.)

Collana

Codesria book series

Altri autori (Persone)

AgbuOsita

Disciplina

331.31096

Soggetti

Child labor - Africa

Child labor - Law and legislation - Africa

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Contributors; 1. Introduction: Children and Youth in the Labour Process; 2. Child Labour in Contemporary Africa: Issues and Challenges; 3. Getting Them Young: Child Labour in Ikot Ekpene from a Historical Perspective; 4. Economic Crises and Child Trafficking in Nigeria: A Comparative Analysis of the 1930's and 1990's; 5. Children Exploitation in the Labour Process: Empirical Exposition from Ile-Ife, Nigeria; 6. Internal Child Trafficking in Nigeria: Transcending Legal Borders

7. Le Phénomène 'Vidomégon': une autre forme de Traffic d'  Enfant dans la ville de Cotono 8. Problématique du Travail des Enfants et les Stratégies de Survie au Congo Brazzaville; 9. Étude sur le Travail des Enfants dans L'Agriculture: Région de Meknès - Tafilalet, Maroc; 10. Problématique de la Prostitution Infanto-Juvénile à Kinshasa: Cas des 'Tshel'; 11. Enfants et jeunes dans le métier de la danse au sein des groupes musicaux modernes à Kinshasa; 12. Conclusion; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

It is increasingly clear that children and the youth today play a



significant role in the labour process in Africa. But, to what extent is this role benign? And when and why does this role become exploitative rather than beneficial? This book on children and the youth in Africa sets out to address these questions. The book observes that in Africa today, children are under pressure to work, often engaged in the worst forms of child labour and therefore not living out their role as children. It argues that the social and economic environment of the African child is markedly different from what