Child Labour: A Public Health Perspective
Anaclaudia Gastal Fassa, David L. Parker, and Thomas J. Scanlon
Abstract
Child labour constitutes a major public health concern, with estimates that worldwide 110 million children aged 57–14 years are engaged in labour that can be described as hazardous or intolerable. This book examines both the rights oriented and public health perspectives on child labour. A rights approach ensures that exploitative and abusive work is considered not just in terms of a labour market or health rights approach, but also in terms of human dignity and the solutions that preserve the rights of children and communities. The public health approach is steeped in the relationship between ... More
Child labour constitutes a major public health concern, with estimates that worldwide 110 million children aged 57–14 years are engaged in labour that can be described as hazardous or intolerable. This book examines both the rights oriented and public health perspectives on child labour. A rights approach ensures that exploitative and abusive work is considered not just in terms of a labour market or health rights approach, but also in terms of human dignity and the solutions that preserve the rights of children and communities. The public health approach is steeped in the relationship between individuals and their community, seeking to identify how the presence (or absence) of government programmes and policies affects those involved. The economics perspective is also presented early in the book, to aid understanding of the causes and consequences of child labour, before the alternate public health and sociological views are presented. The book examines factors such as poverty, malnutrition, social disadvantage, gender, globalisation, and education, and look at both physical and psychological threats.
Keywords:
exploitative work,
abusive work,
labour market,
human dignity,
rights of children,
government programmes,
poverty,
malnutrition,
social disadvantage,
gender
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2010 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780199558582 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2010 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199558582.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Anaclaudia Gastal Fassa, editor
Associate Professor, Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil
David L. Parker, editor
Epidemiologist, Park Nicollet Clinic and Physician, HealthPartners, Minnesota, USA
Thomas J. Scanlon, editor
Consultant in Public Health and Honorary Research Fellow, Centre for International Health and Development, Institute of Child Health, London
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