Children of other worlds : exploitation in the global market

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Author:

Seabrook, Jeremy, 1939-

ISBN:

9780745313962

9780745313917

Personal Author:

Seabrook, Jeremy, 1939-

Publication Information:

London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2001.

Physical Description:

vi, 166 p. ; 22 cm.

Abstract:

"Children of Other Worlds examines the international exploitation of children and exposes the hypocrisy, piety and moral blindness that have informed the debate in the West on the rights of the child. It insists that the whole question of protecting children's rights, North and South, must take into consideration the structural abuses of humanity that are inherent in globalization. It addresses the question of whether the West can turn its "benevolent" attention to child labour in the rest of the world."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject Term:

Child labor.

Child slaves -- Employment.

Children -- Social conditions.

Children's rights.

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Summary

More than 40,000 children die daily in the developing world from avoidable sickness and disease. Tens of millions of children labour in mines, mills and sweatshops, or scavenge for a living on city streets and dumps. In the so-called developed world, children's lives are similarly blighted by drugs, alcohol, sexual abuse and violence.Children of the rich are unhealthily obsessed with consumerist desires while children of the poor suffer from lack of opportunity. The global market is responsible for both of these ills.In Children of Other Worlds Jeremy Seabrook examines the international exploitation of children and exposes the hypocrisy, piety and moral blindness that have informed so much of the debate in the West on the rights of the child. Seabrook insists that the whole question of protecting children's rights must take into consideration the structural abuses of humanity that are inherent in globalisation.