International Research on Working Children
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The Amsterdam-based foundation for International Research on Working Children (IREWOC) was established in 1992 in order to generate more research on child labour
. It has developed into a professional organization which is closely in touch both with the academic world and with development practitioners. IREWOC looks at the issue of child labour from the perspective of child rights and with a focus on the socio-cultural and economic environment.
It seeks to understand the reasons, based on economic necessity, why many children work, and takes a strong position in favour of abolition while making a distinction between (light forms of) child work and child labour.
The IREWOC research staff has conducted world-wide anthropological research on various aspects related to child labour. Major projects that have been concluded are on Working Children and Agency, Child Labour Unions, Child Labour Migration and Deprived Children and Education. The focus presently is on the worst forms of child labour. Intensive research is going on in a dozen of countries across the developing world
. Research is conducted with the policy implications in view {http://www.childlabour.net/docs/GIEPublicatie.pdf)
The IREWOC director, Dr. G.K. Lieten, is the professor of Child Labour Studies at the University of Amsterdam and at the International Institute of Social History
. His inaugural address (www.irewoc.nl under documents) deals with the historical, sociological and ideological aspects of child labour.
Child labor
Child labour refers to the employment of children at regular and sustained labour. This practice is considered exploitative by many international organizations and is illegal in many countries...
. It has developed into a professional organization which is closely in touch both with the academic world and with development practitioners. IREWOC looks at the issue of child labour from the perspective of child rights and with a focus on the socio-cultural and economic environment.
It seeks to understand the reasons, based on economic necessity, why many children work, and takes a strong position in favour of abolition while making a distinction between (light forms of) child work and child labour.
The IREWOC research staff has conducted world-wide anthropological research on various aspects related to child labour. Major projects that have been concluded are on Working Children and Agency, Child Labour Unions, Child Labour Migration and Deprived Children and Education. The focus presently is on the worst forms of child labour. Intensive research is going on in a dozen of countries across the developing world
Third World
The term Third World arose during the Cold War to define countries that remained non-aligned with either capitalism and NATO , or communism and the Soviet Union...
. Research is conducted with the policy implications in view {http://www.childlabour.net/docs/GIEPublicatie.pdf)
The IREWOC director, Dr. G.K. Lieten, is the professor of Child Labour Studies at the University of Amsterdam and at the International Institute of Social History
International Institute of Social History
The International Institute of Social History is a historical research institute in Amsterdam. It was founded in 1935 by Nicolaas Posthumus. The IISG is part of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences....
. His inaugural address (www.irewoc.nl under documents) deals with the historical, sociological and ideological aspects of child labour.