Anthropological Perspectives on Children as Helpers, Workers, Artisans, and Laborers

• Main Author: Lancy, David F. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies on the Anthropology of Childhood and Youth
• Subjects: Ethnology.; Social groups.; Family.; Childhood.; Adolescence.; Social Anthropology.; Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.; Childhood, Adolescence and Society.

Within academia, the study of childhood has been dominated by a mono-cultural or WEIRD (Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic) perspective. However, a contrasting and more varied perspective is emerging within the field of anthropology. So, while the phenomenon of children as worke...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Work in Children's Lives
• 2. From Playing to Working
• 3. Helpers
• 4. Becoming Workers
• 5. Young Artisans
• 6. Children as a Reserve Labor Force
• 7. Children as Laborers
• 8. The Effects of Culture Change on Children's Work.