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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureWhy do children work? ‘It is how I take care of myself’Some children start work against their parents' wishes, and bans on child labour make it impossible to protect them...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureWhy do children work? ‘To learn a trade’Many children see vocational training, not formal schooling, as the way to escape back-breaking work
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureWhy do children work? ‘To become big men and women’Schools are assumed to be the path to success, but what if the schools are bad, cruel, or don’t exist?
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureThe home economics of child labourYou can't stop child labour without confronting household poverty
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureWhy do children work? ‘We have no helper in this world’Inequality is at the core of child labour, so why isn’t redistribution seen as the solution?
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureTaken in the name of ‘rescue’: a child respondsGhanaian children are being wrenched from their parents and put into care homes to ‘save’ them from work
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureWhy do children work? ‘To attain my future’Many say that working children should be in school. But for many children, work is what gets them an education
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureWhy do children work? ‘We will not have food to eat’When children work to survive, who can demand they stop?
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureChild workers speak: will anybody listen?Child labour can’t be abolished through force. To address it, we must attend to why children work in the first place
