General


In Book Form
Anker, Richard, and Sandhaya Barge, S. Rajagopal, M.P. Joseph, eds.

Economics of Child Labour in Hazardous Industries of India, (Baroda: Centre for Operations Research and Training, 1998).


Atkin, S. Beth

Voices From The Fields: Children of Migrant Farmworkers Tell Their Stories, (Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1993), 96 pp.

Interviews with and photographs of children of migrant farm workers in the United States.


Bales, Kevin

Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy

(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999).
About modern forms of "slavery," including bonded labor.


Basu, Kaushik
"International labor standards and child1 labor"
Challenge, Sept.-Oct. 1999, pp. 80-93.


Basu, Kaushik
"Child Labor: Cause, Consequence, and Cure, with Remarks on International Labor Standards"
Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 37, Sept. 1999, pp. 1083-1119.


Bellamy, Carol
The State of the World's Children, 1997
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997) 6.95 GBP / $12.95 USA. 107 pp.
http://www.unicef.org/sowc97. Includes list of references, although no information about how to get in touch with them.


Belville, Renate et.al.
Child Labor in the 1990s: How Far Have We Come?
(National Child Labor Committee, 1994, monograph).
Collection of essays about child1 labor in the United States.


Boyden, Jo, and Ling, Birgitta, and Myers, William E.
What Works for Working Children
(Stockholm: UNICEF and Radda Barnen, 1998).
Argues that many accepted theories about child1 labor and children are not backed by thorough analysis.
Reviews literature about child1 labor published up through 1998. Argues that if the requirement for "child-centered"
policymaking, enshrined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child, is to be fully implemented, more should
be done to include children in the formation of decisions that will affect them. Theme: Working children must be
respected, both in theory, and in the policies and programs designed to affect them.


Bremner, Robert H. (advisory editor)
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the National Child Labor Committee, 1905, 1906


Children and Youth: Social Problems and Social Policy Series

(New York: Arno Press, 1974).
Reprints of essays by leaders in the U.S. anti-child labor movement who started the National Child Labor Committee.


Childhood
, 6 (1), 1999
This issue of the journal was devoted to child1 labor.

Per Miljeteig, "Understanding Child Labour", pp. 13-26
Myers, William E., "Considering child1 labour," pp. 5-12
Woodhead, Martin, "Combating child1 labour: Listen to What the Children Say," pp. 27-4.


Cultural Survival
Quarterly, Summer 2000, Vol. 24, Issue 2.
Contact:
Cultural Survival, 215 Prospect Street, Cambridge, MA 02139
tel: (617) 441-5400; fax: (617) 441-5417
csinc@cs.org
The above issue contains the following articles at http://209.238.73.41/eng/index.htm:

"Nobel Prize Laureates Write Appeal for the Children of the World", p. 11
Rajani, Rakesh, "Introduction, Questioning What We Think About Children", pp. 40-43
Ennew, Judith, "The History of Children's Rights: Whose Story?" pp. 44-48
Baker, Rachel, "The Importance of Being Connected, Perspectives from Nepali Street Children", pp. 49-51
Reddy, Nandana, "The Right to Organize, The Working Children's Movement in India", pp. 52-55
Peters, Krijn, "Policy-Making on Children in Conflict, Lessons from Sierra Leone & Liberia", pp. 56-58
Mann, Gillian and Ledward, Andrea, "The Best Interests of 'Separated Children' in Rwanda", pp. 59-62
Ledward, Andrea, "Rights and Responsibilities in HIV-Affected Communities in Zimbabwe", pp. 62-65
Klees, Steven J. and Rizzini, Irene, "Children's Involvement in the Making of a New Constitution in Brazil", pp. 66-69
Boyden, Jo, "Conducting Research with War-Affected and Displaced Children", pp. 70-72
Dale, Linda, "Mapping Our World, A Children's Rights Project," pp. 73-76

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Fallon, P. and Tzannatos, Z.
Child Labor: Issues, and Directions for the World Bank
(Washington: World Bank, 1998).


Freedman, Russell
Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor
(New York: Clarion Books, 1994), 104 pp., ISBN: 0395587034


Goldberg, Vicki, Lewis W. Hine
Children at Work
(Prestel USA, 1999), ISBN: 3791321560, 104 pp.


Grootaert, Christiaan, and Harry Patrinos, eds.
The Policy Analysis of Child Labor: A Comparative Study
(New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999).


Gutman, Judith
Lewis Hine and the American Social Conscience
(New York: Walker, 1967)
Out of print, but available in libraries and bookstores dealing in out of print books.


Harvey, Pharis J. and Lauren Riggin,
"Trading away the future: Child Labor in India's Export Industries"
International Labor Rights Education and Research Fund, 124 pp.
Extensive bibliography.


Haspels, Nelien, and Michelle Jankanish, eds.,
Action Against Child Labor
(Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, July 2000), ISBN: 9221108686.


Hawes, Joseph M.,
The Children's Rights Movement: A History of Advocacy and Protection

(Boston: Twayne Publishers/Division of G.K. Hall & Co. 1991)
Out of print, but available in libraries and bookstores dealing in out of print books.


Hine, Lewis Wickes, and Gutman, Judith Mara,
Lewis W. Hine, 1874-1940 : Two Perspectives
(ICP Library of Photographers; vol. 4), ASIN: 067042742X.
Out of print, but available in libraries and bookstores dealing in out of print books.


Hobbs, Sandy, and Jim McKechnie, Lavalette, Michael
Child Labor: A World History Companion
(Abc-Clio, 1999); ISBN: 0874369568; 292 pp.


Human Rights Watch
Contemporary Forms of Slavery in Pakistan
(New York, Washington, London, Brussels: Human Rights Watch, July 1995), 85 pp.


Human Rights Watch, The Small Hands of Slavery: Bonded Child Labor in India
(New York, Washington, London, Brussels: Human Rights Watch, 1996)
www.hrw.org.


Human Rights Watch
Fingers to the Bone: United States Failure to Protect Child Farmworkers
(New York, Washington, London, Brussels: Human Rights Watch, 2000).
www.hrw.org.

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Lavalette, Michael (Ed.),
Child Employment in the Capitalist Labour Market
(Avebury, 1994), ISBN: 1856286002.


Lavalette, Michael (Ed.),
A Thing of the Past? : Child Labour in Britain in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
(St Martin's Press, 1999), ISBN: 0312218117, 240 pp.


Leary, Virginia, A.
"The WTO and the Social Clause: Post-Singapore"
European Journal of International Law
, 1997, pp. 118-122.


McIntosh, Robert
Boys in the Pits: Child Labour in Coal Mines
(Montreal: McGill Queens University Press, 2000), ISBN: 0773520937, 328 pp.


McKechnie, Jim and Hobbs, Sandy,
Working Children: Reconsidering the Debates
(Oslo: Defence for Children International, International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, 1998).


Knight, William James
The World's Exploited Children: Growing Up Sadly
(Washington, D.C.:U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Affairs, Monograph #4, March 1980).
Inquire with U.S. DOL for copies.


Meltzer, Milton
Cheap Raw Material: How Our Youngest Workers are Exploited and Abused
(New York: Viking Press, 1994), ISBN: 067083128X 167 pp.
Young adult.


Nardinelli, Clark
Child Labor and the Industrial Revolution
(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990).
A classic argument that improvements in the economic returns to education reduced child1 labor even before compulsory
education laws were adopted in England and other industrializing countries in the 19th century.


National Research Council and Institute of Medicine, (IMH Committee)
Protecting Youth at Work: Health, Safety, and Development of Working Children and Adolescents in the United States
(National Academy Press, 1998), ISBN: 0309064139, 336 pp.


Nieuwenhuys, Olga
Children's Lifeworlds Gender, Welfare, and Labour in the Developing World
(London: Routledge, 1994)
Anthropological study of an area in Kerala, India, shows that school attendance does not preclude children from working,
especially at home, and does not necessarily lead to children earning higher incomes in better jobs.


Nieuwenhuys, Olga
"The Paradox of Child Labor and Anthropology"
Annual Review of Anthropology, 1996 (25), pp. 237-251.


Parr, Joy
Labouring Children: British Immigrant Apprentices to Canada, 1869-1924
(Reprints in Canadian History), University of Toronto Press, 1994, ISBN: 080207443X, 181 pp.


Reich, Robert B.
Forced Labor: The Prostitution of Children


U.S. Dept. of Labor, 1996
Papers from a symposium co-sponsored by the US Department of Labor, Bureau of International Labor Affairs, the Women's Bureau,
and the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, held on Sept. 29, 1995 at the U.S. Dept. of Labor
in Washington, D.C.

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Schiefelbein, Ernesto
"School-related economic incentives used in Latin America for reducing drop-out and retention mainly linked to child1 labor"
Innocenti Occasional Papers, Child Rights Series, No. 12, January 1997.


Siddiqui, F. and Patrinos, Harry Anthony
"Child Labor: Issues, Causes, and Interventions"
Human Capital Development and Operations Policy, Working Papers
Extensive reference list.


Stein, R. Conrad
The Story of Child Labor Laws (Cornerstones of Freedom)
(Chicago: Children's Press, Cornerstones of Freedom Series, 1984), ASIN: 0516046799.
Out of print, but available in libraries and bookstores dealing in out of print books.


Tolfree, David
"Old Enough to Work, Old Enough to Have A Say"
(Stockholm: Radda Barnen, 1998).
Monograph argues that children who are old enough to work should be consulted on policies and programs
designed to help them, and argues that policies and programs would benefit as a result.


Trattner, Walter I., Crusade for the Children: A History of the National Child Labor Committee and Child Labor Reform in America
(Chicago: Quadrangle Boos, 1970).


Tuttle, Carolyn
Hard at Work in Factories and Mines: The Economics of Child Labor During the British Industrial Revolution
(Westview Press, 1999); ISBN: 0813336988, 308 pp.


Varley, Pamela, ed.
The Sweatshop Quandary: Corporate Responsibility on the Global Frontier
(Washington: The Investor Responsibility Research Center, 1998).
Explores the sweatshop issue and finds it is not as black and white as often portrayed.


Trattner, Walter I.
Crusade for the Children: a History of the National Child Labor Committee and Child Labor Reform in America
(Chicago: Quadrangle, 1970), ASIN: 081290141X.
igh school/adult.

Out of print, but available in libraries and bookstores dealing in out of print books.


Weisman Deitch, JoAnne B., ed.
The Lowell Mill Girls: Life in the Factory
(Lowell, M.A., Discovery Enterprises, Ltd., 1991), ISBN: 1579600417.


White, Ben
"Globalization and the Child Labour Problem"
Journal of International Development, 8 (6), pp. 829-839.


White, Ben
"Children, Work, and 'Child Labour': Changing Responses to the Employment of Children"
Development and Change
, Vol. 25, No. 4, Oct. 1994, pp. 849-878.


Williams, Mary
Child Labor and Sweatshops At Issue
(Greenhaven Press 1999), ISBN: 0737700033


Williams, Mary E. (ed.)
Child Labor and Sweatshops (Opposing Viewpoints Series.
(Greenhaven Press, 1999), ISBN: 0737700025


Zelizer, Viviana A. Rotman
Pricing the Priceless Child
(Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1994 reprint); ISBN: 0691034591, 296 pp.

Other
See reports available from country offices of UNICEF (www.unicef.org ), and NGOs such as World Vision (www.worldvision.org).

 

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