This book explores the economic lives of children in rural Lombok, Indonesia. An anthropological perspective adds two important components to our understanding of children's work. Firstly, it illuminates, and thus questions, what are often seen as cultural universals by situating social practices in specific cultural and social contexts. Children's work in Lombok needs to be understood, initially, in terms of vernacular notions of 'children' and 'work'. Secondly, it explores children's work through their own accounts. It shows that the ideas, wants, and expectations children have about their...