Working Schoolchildren in Britain Today
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3833009 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Glenn Rikowski (0000-0002-9821-3762), Mike Neary (0000-0003-4358-5603) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 25-35 |
| Publication date | 1997-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Capital & Class (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0309-8168 • E-ISSN: 2041-0980 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/030981689706300103 |
| OpenAlex | W2084130250 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 7 |
In the scary media world of abused childhoods, child labour has become a major journalistic event. The news headlines record children working in conditions thought to have been abolished by social democratic reform. In spite of this mounting documentary evidence-supported by research undertaken by trade unions and pressure groups such as the Low Pay Unit-Tory ministers argued that child labour was not a problem. The Government's interest in youth was not the demoralisation of young workers at work, but the insubordination of youth, expressed as, among other things, crime, drug-taking and classroom disorder. The problem for conservative policy is the remoralisation of young people through the imposition of a new authority and the production of guides to the virtuous life
Criminology · Democracy · Economics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Virtuous circle and vicious circle · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Psychology · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,15 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2020 (22) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |