Children's Views on Children's Right to Work: Reflections from Belfast

Autor/in	Leonard, Madeleine
Titel	Children's Views on Children's Right to Work: Reflections from Belfast
Quelle	In: Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 11 (2004) 1, S.45-61 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0907-5682
DOI	10.1177/0907568204040184
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Labor Market; Childrens Rights; Child Labor; Attitudes; Public Policy; Labor Legislation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Labour market; Arbeitsmarkt; 'Children''s rights'; Kindesrecht; Child labour; Kinderarbeit; Attitude; Einstellung; Verhalten; Öffentliche Ordnung; Labor law; Arbeitsrecht
Abstract	The purpose of this article is to examine children's attitudes regarding the right to work. The article is based on comments made by 245 15-year-old children on child employment and is supported by focus group interviews with 56 boys and 38 girls and tape-recorded interviews with 15 working pupils. One of most dominant themes to emerge from the data is children's perception that they have a right to work. The article examines the legislation regarding child employment in Northern Ireland and the role of the state in determining the legislation. The author suggests that within this legislation, children are seen as vulnerable and in need of protection. Traditionally the protection of children in the workforce has been achieved by limiting the hours they can work and the occupations they can enter. Yet when children's own views are taken into account, they move beyond the limits of protecting them through exclusion to suggesting frameworks whereby their protection may be achieved by empowering them within the labour market. (Author).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10