The Child and the State in India: Child Labor and Education Policy in Comparative Perspective - Softcover

Weiner, Myron

 
9780691018980: The Child and the State in India: Child Labor and Education Policy in Comparative Perspective
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0691018987 ISBN 13: 9780691018980
Verlag: Princeton University Press, 1990

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India has the largest number of non-schoolgoing working children in the world. Why has the government not removed them from the labor force and required that they attend school, as have the governments of all developed and many developing countries? To answer this question, this major comparative study first looks at why and when other states have intervened to protect children against parents and employers. By examining Europe of the nineteenth century, the United States, Japan, and a number of developing countries, Myron Weiner rejects the argument that children were removed from the labor force only when the incomes of the poor rose and employers needed a more skilled labor force. Turning to India, the author shows that its policies arise from fundamental beliefs, embedded in the culture, rather than from economic conditions. Identifying the specific values that elsewhere led educators, social activists, religious leaders, trade unionists, military officers, and government bureaucrats to make education compulsory and to end child labor, he explains why similar groups in India do not play the same role.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Charlotte y Peter Fiell son dos autoridades en historia, teoría y crítica del diseño y han escrito más de sesenta libros sobre la materia, muchos de los cuales se han convertido en éxitos de ventas. También han impartido conferencias y cursos como profesores invitados, han comisariado exposiciones y asesorado a fabricantes, museos, salas de subastas y grandes coleccionistas privados de todo el mundo. Los Fiell han escrito numerosos libros para TASCHEN, entre los que se incluyen 1000 Chairs, Diseño del siglo XX, El diseño industrial de la A a la Z, Scandinavian Design y Diseño del siglo XXI.

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Verlag
Princeton University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1990
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0691018987
ISBN 13 
9780691018980
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
228
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ISBN 10:  0691078688 ISBN 13:  9780691078687
Verlag: Princeton University Press, 1990
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