Will of Their Own: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Working Children

In order to discuss the controversial and emotional topic of children's work from a subject-oriented perspective, Liebel (sociology, Technical U. of Berlin) focuses on working children themselves, and considers their work principally from the perspective of the meanings it has for them. He acknowledges that taking working children as active subjects requires a reconsideration of the ideology and institutionalization of childhood in the bourgeois West. Distributed in the US by Palgrave. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR