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Editor's introduction : Child labor in global and historical perspective / Hugh D. Hindman

Editor's note: Measuring child labor

Part I. World

Section 1. Understanding child labor

The economic view of child labor / Patrick M. Emerson

Social science views on working children / Ben White

A brief historiography of child labor / Colin Heywood

Toward an integrative theory of child labor / G.K. Lieten

Section 2. More developed regions of the world

Periods of history: childhood and child work, c.1800-present / Harry Hendrick

Child labor in the Industrial Revolution / Peter N. Stearns

Coming to terms with child labor / Hugh D. Hindman

Coming to terms with child labor: the historical role of education / Alec Fyfe

Coming to terms with child labor: history of child welfare / Bengt Sandin

Coming to terms with child labor: the role of technology / Carolyn Tuttle

Child labor in the developed nations today / Phil Mizen

Global trade and child labor / Drusilla K. Brown

Visual representations of child labor in the west / George Dimock

Section 3. Less developed regions of the world

Worst forms of child labor / Hugh D. Hindman

Worst forms of child labor: agriculture / Alec Fyfe

Worst forms of child labor: child domestic labor / Jonathan Blagbrough

Worst forms of child labor: street children and street trades / David Maidment

Worst forms of child labor: commercial sexual exploitation of children / Carmen Madrinan

Worst forms of child labor: children and war / Zoë Marriage

Worst forms of child labor: child bonded labor / Garance Genicot

The puzzle of "idle" children, neither in school nor performing economic activity / Mario Biggeri, ... [et al.]

Child labor policy for developing nations / Deborah Levison

Education and child labor: a global perspective / Ranjan Ray

Special health risks of child labor / Anaclaudia Gastal Fassa and David H. Wegman

Section 4. Action against child labor

The United Nations and UNICEF / Alec Fyfe

Millennium development goals / Jaap E. Doek

International Labor Organization (ILO) and the International Program for the Elimination of Child Labor (IPEC) / G.K. Lieten

The role of nongovernmental organizations / Mike Dottridge

The role of trade unions / Alec Fyfe

Organization of working children / William E. Myers

The economics of consumer actions against products with child labor content / Eric V. Edmonds

Global march against child labor / Risto F. Harma

Part II. Sub-Saharan Africa

Section 1. Introduction

Child labor in postcolonial Africa / Michel Bonnet

Child labor in colonial Africa / Beverly Grier

HIV/AIDS and child labor in Sub-Saharan Africa / Anita Amorim and Nadine Osseiran

Influence of orphanhood on children's schooling and labor: evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa / Lorenzo Guarcello, ... [et al.]

Children's work among traditional healers in Africa / Eddy Joshua Walakira

Child labor unions in Africa / G.K. Lieten

Section 2. Western Africa

Trafficking for labor exploitation in West and Central Africa / Albertine de Lange

Koranic schools and child labor in West Africa / Mahir Saul

Burkina Faso : Child labor in Burkina Faso / Albertine de Lange

Côte d'Ivoire : Children's work, child domestic labor, and child trafficking in Côte d'Ivoire / Yacouba Diallo

Gambia

Ghana : Child Labor in Ghana / Martin Verlet

Guinea-Bissau

Mali : Child labor in Mali / Richard Marcoux

Niger

Nigeria / Child labor in Nigeria / Risto F. Harma ; Children in street trading in Nigeria / A.A. Aderinto ; Child labor in Nigeria: historical perspective / Adelaja Odutola Odukoya

Senegal : Child labor in Senegal: contemporary and historical perspective / Loretta E. Bass

Sierra Leone

Togo

Section 3. Middle Africa

Child soldiers in the Great Lakes Region of Africa / Alison Dilworth

Angola

Cameroon : Child labor in Cameroon / Roger A. Tsafack Nanfosso

Central African Republic

Chad

Section 4. Eastern Africa

Burundi

Ethiopia : Child labor in Ethiopia: overview and policy challenges / Tassew Woldehanna and Nicola Jones ; Attending school, learning, and child work in Ethiopia / Arjun Singh Bedi and Assefa Admassie

Kenya : Child labor in Kenya / Janet Wamsley ; Children and forced labor in colonial Kenya / Opolot Okia

Madagascar

Malawi

Rwanda

Tanzania : Child labor in Tanzania / Karen A. Porter

Uganda : Child labor in Uganda / Eddy Joshua Walakira

Zambia : Child labor in Zambia / Peter Jensen

Zimbabwe : Working children in Zimbabwe / Michael Bourdillon

Child labor in colonial Zimbabwe / Beverly Grier

Section 5. Southern Africa

Lesotho

Namibia

South Africa : Mapping children's work in South African history / Susan Levine

Swaziland

Part III. Latin America and Caribbean

Section 1. Introduction : Child labor in Latin America / Walter Alarcón Glasinovich

History of childhood and child labor in Latin America / Elizabeth Anne Kuznesof

Child labor and education in Latin America / Mirellise Vazquez

Children's social movements in Latin America / Marten van den Berge

Section 2. South America

Worst forms of child labor in the Andes region / Marten van den Berge

Bolivia : Child labor in Bolivia / Marten van den Berge

Brazil : Recent history of child labor in Brazil / Ethel V. Kosminsky ; Child street vendors in Brazil / Ana Lúcia Kassouf and Andrea R. Ferro ; Prostitution and commercial sexual exploitation of children and adolescents in Brazil / Leandro Feitosa Andrade and Fúlvia Rosenberg ; Special health risks to child workers in Brazil / Anaclaudia Gastal Fassa and David H. Wegman ; The intergenerational persistence of child labor in Brazil / André Portela Souza ; Child labor labeling in Brazil / Andres Pablo Falconer ; Development of child labor law in Brazil / Oris de Oliveira ; The history of child labor in Brazil / Ana Lúcia Kassouf and Marcelo Justus dos Santos ; Orphans and the transition from slave to free labor in northeast Brazil / Joan Meznar

Chile

Colombia : Child labor in Colombia / Cármen Elisa Flórez and Diana Hincapié

Ecuador

Guyana

Paraguay

Peru

Venezuela

Section 3. Central America

Belize

Costa Rica

El Salvador : Child labor in El Salvador / Lorenzo Guarcello, Gabriella Breglia, and Scott Lyon

Guatemala : Child labor in Guatemala / Lorenzo Guarcello, Gabriella Breglia, and Scott Lyon

Honduras : Child labor in Honduras / Adrienne Pine

Mexico : Child labor in Mexico / Maja Pleic, Felicia Marie Knaul, and Albert Berry ; Street children in Mexico / Felipe Peralta ; PROGRESA/Oportunidades: Mexico's school stipend program / Abhra Roy ; Impact of temporary labor migration on schooling among Mexican children / Grace Kao ; History of child labor in Mexico / Marcos T. Aguila and Mariano E. Torres B.

Nicaragua : Child labor in Nicaragua / Luis Serra

Panama

Section 4. Caribbean

Dominican Republic

Haiti : Child labor in Haiti / Tone Sommerfelt and Jon Pedersen

Jamaica : Child labor in Jamaica / Leith L. Dunn ; Commercial sexual exploitation of children in Jamaica / Leith L. Dunn

Part IV. North America

Section 1. Canada : Child labor in Canada / Nancy Janovicek ; Children in Canadian mining / Elizabeth Perry ; Nation builders: orphans in the Canadian wilderness / Gail H. Corbett ; Evolution of child welfare policy in Canada / Maureen Baker

Section 2. United States

History of child labor : The work of enslaved children in the United States / Wilma King ; Orphan trans / Laura L. Leavitt ; History of children in U.S. coal mining / Julia E. Offiong ; Child labor in the American glass industry / Ken Fones-Wolf ; Child labor in American textiles / Hugh D. Hindman ; Child labor in commercialized agriculture, 1890-1966 / Mary Lyons-Barrett ; Evolution of U.S. child labor policy / Hugh D. Hindman ; Florence Kelley and the National Consumers League / Laura S. Abrams ; National Child Labor Committee / James DelRosso ; Felix Adler / James DelRosso ; Edgar Gardner Murphy / James DelRosso ; Lewis Wickes Hine / Tom Beck ; The U.S. Children's Bureau / Kriste Lindenmeyer

Child Labor and the United States today : Children in the fields: America's hidden child labor problem / Reid Maki ; Twenty-first-century adolescence in America / Jeremy Staff and Jeylan T. Mortimer ; American students' activism against global child labor / Chivy Sok

Part V. Europe

Section 1. Introduction : Europe: an introduction and overview / Colin Heywood

European proto-industrialization / David Levine

European industrialization and child labor / Marjatta Rahikainen

History of education in Europe: schooling and child labor in Europe since the Reformation / Harry Haue

Apprenticeship practices in Europe / Hal Hansen

Church and child labor: Catholicism / Timothy Kelly

Church and child labor: Protestant Reformation / Thomas Max Safley

Section 2. United Kingdom

History of child labor in Britain / Peter Kirby

Pauper apprenticeship in England / Alysa Levene

History of child labor in coal mining in Britain / Peter Kirby

Child labor in the United Kingdom: Textiles / Carolyn Tuttle

Child work in agriculture in Britain / Nicola Verdon

Street children and street trades in the United Kingdom / Heather Shore

Chimney Sweep: cultural icon / Heather Shore

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, seventh Earl of Shaftesbury / Deborah J. Schmidle

National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children / Deborah J. Schmidle

Child work and child labor in the United Kingdom today / Phil Mizen

Section 3. Northern Europe

History of child labor in the Nordic countries / Ellen Schrumpf

Family policy in the Nordic countries / Pirjo Markkola

Denmark : Child labor in the Danish textile industry / Jeppe Toensberg

Finland : History of child labor in Finland / Marjatta Rahikainen

Sweden : History of child labor in Sweden / Lars Olsson ; Financial incentives in child auctions in nineteenth-century Sweden / Sofia Lundberg ; Child work and child labor in Sweden today / Kristina Engwall and Ingrid Söderlind

Section 4. Western Europe

Belgium : Child labor in Belgium / Peter Scholliers ; Child labor in the Ghent cotton mills, nineteenth century / Peter Scholliers

France : France: a historical overview / Colin Heywood

Germany : History of child labor in Germany: an overview / Thomas Max Safley ; New risks and new opportunities in school-to-work transition: the transformation of the German apprenticeship system / Jan Skrobanek, Birgit Reissig, and Nora Gaupp

The Netherlands : Child labor in the Netherlands during the proto- and early industrialization / Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk ; Work, education, and discipline: attitudes toward child labor in the Netherlands, 1500 to 1875 / Cor Smit ; Development of child labor policy in the Netherlands since 1874 / Stan Meuwese ; Newspaper delivery in the Netherlands / Stan Meuwese

Section 5. Southern Europe

Albania : Exploitation of Albanian children in Greece / Mirela Shuteriqi

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Portugal : History of child labor in Portugal / Pedro Goulart ; Child labor in Portugal today / Martin Eaton and Pedro Goulart ; Child labor in Portuguese textiles / Martin Eaton

Spain : Children's work in Spanish textiles during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Enriqueta Camps

Section 6. Eastern Europe

Romania : Child labor in Romania / Maria-Carmen Pantea

Russia : History of child labor in Imperial Russia / Boris B. Gorshkov ; Child labor in the Russian textile industry / Dave Pretty ; Children in sex trades in Russia / Anna Yakovleva ; Position of children and child labor in Russia today / Valeriy A. Mansurov and Anastasiya Batykova

Part VI. North Africa and the Middle East (Western Asia)

Section 1. North Africa : History of child labor in North Africa / Heidi Morrison

Algeria : History of child labor in Algeria / Heidi Morrison

Libya : History of child labor in Libya / Heidi Morrison

Morocco : History of child labor in Morocco / Heidi Morrison ; Morocco: why children go to work instead of school / Bernard Schlemmer ; The pyjama trail affair: a case study in child labor / Fatima Badry ; Small maids in Morocco / Tone Sommerfelt

Tunisia / History of child labor in Tunisia / Heidi Morrison

Section 2. Middle East

Azerbaijan : Child labor in Azerbaijan / Ryan Womack

Egypt : Child labor in Egypt / Heidi Morrison

Georgia : Child labor in Georgia / Nona Tsotseria

Iran : Child labor in Iran / Reza Jalali

Iraq

Jordan : Child labor and child growth in Jordan / Nick Spencer and Hasan Hawamdeh

Kuwait : Selling girls in Kuwait / Tom O'Neill

Turkey : Child labor in Turkey / Yakin Ertürk ; Legal protection of working children in Turkey / Esin Konanç and Onur Dinç ; Primary education and child labor in Turkey / Cennet Engin-Demir ; Sexual exploitation of the girl child: juvenile commercial sex workers in Istanbul / Esin Kuntay and Guliz Erginsoy

United Arab Emirates : Children trafficked to the Gulf States for use as camel jockeys / Catherine Turner

Yemen : Child labor in Yemen / Lorenzo Guarcello, Gabriella Breglia, and Scott Lyon

Part VII. Central and South Asia

Section 1. Central Asia : Kazakhstan : Child labor in Kazakhstan / Ryan Womack

Uzbekistan

Section 2. South Asia

Rural child labor in South Asia / Afke De Groot

Bangladesh : Bangladeshi garment industry: from the Harkin Bill to the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association / Munir Quddus

India : Economic history of modern India / Sharmistha Self ; Evolution of the law on child labor in India / Usha Ramanathan ; Children in India's carpet industry / Shahid Ashraf ; Children in India's glass industry / Shahid Ashraf ; Children in India's tea industry / Shahid Ashraf ; Children of Kolkata Slums / Subrata Sankar Bagchi ; Children of Delhi slums / Arup Mitra ; Working children's unions in India / Heike Roschanski ; Child labor and HIV and AIDS in India / Indrani Gupta ; Education and child labor in India / Sharmistha Self ; Challenges for tribal schooling in India / Afke De Groot

Nepal : Child labor in Nepal / Bal Kumar KC ; Child labor in the Tibeto-Nepalese carpet industry / Tom O'Neill ; Social labeling programs in Nepal's carpet industry / Tom O'Neill ; Trafficking of child workers in Nepal / Govind Subedi ; The recruitment and use of children in Nepal's armed conflict / Charu Lata Hogg

Pakistan : Child labor in Pakistan / Zarina Jillani ; Child work and schooling costs in Pakistan / Arjun Singh Bedi and Gautam Hazarika ; Child labor policy and legislation in Pakistan / Zarina Jillani ; Child labor in Pakistan's export industries / Saadia Toor

Sri Lanka : Forcible recruitment of children in Sri Lanka / Charu Lata Hogg

Part VIII. East Asia and the Pacific

Section 1. East Asia : China : Child labor in China: an overview / G.K. Lieten and Hugh D. Hindman ; Education in the People's Republic of China / Andrew B. Kipnis ; History of child labor in China / Joshua H. Howard ; History of Chinese education / Irving Epstein

Japan : History of child labor in Japan / Atsuko Fujino Kakinami ; Education and child labor in Japan / Richard Grabowski and Sharmistha Self

Mongolia

Section 2. Southeast Asia

Cambodia : Child labor in Cambodia / Lorenzo Guarcello, Gabriella Breglia, and Scott Lyon

Indonesia : Child labor in Indonesia / Sharon Bessell ; Child labor in subcontracting sectors of Indonesia's garment and footwear industries / Indrasari Tjandraningsih ; Children and work in Indonesia: historical overview / Ben White ; Development of child labor policy in Indonesia / Indrasari Tjandraningsih

Myanmar : Child soldiers in Myanmar / Research staff at the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers

Philippines : Education and child labor in the Philippines / Chris Sakellariou ; Child labor on sugarcane plantations in the Philippines / Jennifer de Boer ; Child domestic work in the Philippines / Yuko Kitada ; Children in Muro-Ami fishing / Harold Olofson ; Children in the Philippines gold-mining industry / Rosario M. Espino ; The role of NGOs in the Philippines / Yuko Kitada

Thailand : Child labor in Thailand / Chantana Banpasirichote Wungaeo

Vietnam : Social transformation and children's work in Vietnam / Nguyen Van Chinh ; Street children in Vietnam / Pietro Masina

Section 3. Oceania

Australia : Development of child welfare policy in Australia / Shurlee Swain ; Aboriginal child labor in colonial Australia / Shirleene Robinson

New Zealand : Child labor in New Zealand / Jeanine Graham.

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