Children's Work, Schooling, And Welfare In Latin America

ISBN-13: 9780813339153 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 307 str.

David L. Post

Opis

From the 1980s through the 1990s, children in many areas of the world benefited from new opportunities to attend school, but they also faced new demands to support their families because of continuing and, for many, worsening poverty. Children's Work, Schooling, And Welfare In Latin America is a comparative study of children, ages 12-17, in three different Latin American societies. Using nationally-representative household surveys from Chile, Peru, and Mexico, and repeatedly over different survey years, David Post documents tendencies for children to become economically active, to remain in school, or to do both. The survey data analyzed illustrates the roles of family and regional poverty, and parental resources, in determining what children did with their time in each country. However, rather than to treat children's activities merely as demographic phenomena, or in isolation of the policy environment, Post also scrutinizes the international differences in education policies, labor law, welfare spending, and mobilization for children's rights. Children's Work shows that child labor will not vanish of its own accord, nor follow a uniform path even within a common geographic region. Accordingly, there is a role for welfare policy and for popular mobilization. Post indicates that, even when children attend school, as in Peru or Mexico, many students will continue to work to support the family. If the consequence of their work is to impede their educational success, then schools will need to attend to a new dimension of inequality: that between part-time and full-time students.

Spis treści

Preface -- Policies and Realities for Working Children in Latin America -- The Nature and Politics of Child Labor -- The Norms and Institutions of Education -- A Multivariate Model Of Child Labor and School Attendance -- Region And Gender Differences In Children’s Work And Schooling -- Conclusion: Social Mobilization, NGOs, and Policy Change -- Appendix -- Formal Interviews (with David Post Unless Otherwise Noted)

O autorze

David Post