The Effects of Culture Change on Children’s Work
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23720040 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D F Lancy (0000-0003-0132-5053, Utah State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Pages | 213-235 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Anthropological Perspectives on Children As Helpers, Workers, Artisans, and Laborers (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan US (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/978-1-137-53351-7_8 |
| OpenAlex | W2773153754 |
| ISBN | 9781137533517 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 48 |
The communities anthropologists typically study have undergone rapid change and children are much affected. Enforced schooling undermines children’s contribution to the domestic economy. Children’s (and parent’s) “heads-are-turned” expecting that schooling will put the child on a fast track to secure wage employment. Consequently, children absent themselves from the village curriculum, failing to gain the knowledge and skill essential to making a living in the local ecology. Since the quality of education is usually poor, children cannot use it as a springboard and, so, are left in limbo. Additionally, as the subsistence economy is monetized, children may abandon native crafts or capitalize on tourist demand for new designs. They may be forced to labor to help families disrupted by globalization. At the other extreme to these communities are those where successful schooling followed by prosperity frees children from any and all obligations to contribute to family welfare. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Curriculum · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Globalization · Labour economics · Market economy · Political science · Prosperity · Quality (philosophy) · Sociology · Subsistence agriculture · Wage · Welfare · Work (physics) · Early Childhood Education and Development · Ecology · Engineering · Innovation and Socioeconomic Development · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |