International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy: Volume 29 Issue 3/4

Re‐assessing minimum‐age standards for children's work

Michael F.C. Bourdillon, Ben White, William E. Myers

The purpose of this paper is to call for re‐thinking of the universal minimum‐age approach to problems of child labour.

Child labour in Latin America: theory, policy, practice

Jennie Gamlin, Maria Eugenia Pastor

The purpose of this paper is to examine the theory, policy and practice of child labour in Latin America. Interventions to reduce child labour are more likely to be successful if…

Are child prostitutes child workers? A case study

Heather Montgomery

Based on a case study of a small community in Thailand, the purpose of this paper is to analyse the explanations that child prostitutes give for selling sex. It looks at whether…

Child labour and cocoa: whose voices prevail?

Amanda Berlan

The purpose of this paper is to provide ethnographic data on the lives of children working in cocoa‐producing communities in Ghana and to illustrate the importance of…

Child labor and mothers' work in Brazil

Deborah DeGraff, Deborah Levison, Mary Robison

The purpose of this paper is to explore associations between children's and mothers” work.

Adolescent work experience and self‐efficacy

Keith A. Cunnien, Nicole MartinRogers, Jeylan T. Mortimer

The purpose of this paper is to assess the relationship between high school work experiences and self‐efficacy.

Exploring risks faced by child workers in Britain

Sandy Hobbs, Seonaid Anderson, Jim McKechnie

The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent of accidents amongst child workers and to test the hypothesis that the tendency to have an accident is related to low perception…

School pupils' firms and mini‐companies in Germany

Manfred Liebel

The purpose of this paper is to outline the emergence of pupils' firms in Germany since the beginning of the 1990s.

Guest editorial

Madeline Leonard