Working Children: The “Question” Or the “Solution”?

Working children have frequently become a principal subject mater of the agenda within last ten years. These children who work, in United Nations words, “under difficult circumstances” shoulders the subsistence burden of deprived families. Although working in the hard conditions is itself a question...

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Main Author: Özkan Yıldız
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Gaziantep University 2007-12-01
Series:Gaziantep University Journal of Social Sciences
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Online Access:http://dergipark.gov.tr/jss/issue/24258/257144?publisher=gantep
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Summary:Working children have frequently become a principal subject mater of the agenda within last ten years. These children who work, in United Nations words, “under difficult circumstances” shoulders the subsistence burden of deprived families. Although working in the hard conditions is itself a question, they become a means of solution to a question through contributing to the budget of their families. This paper engages with the phenomenon of the working children, the causes of this, the nature of the families of these children, the forms of the child labour
ISSN:2149-5459