Citation

Polakoff EG. J. Dev. Soc. 2007; 23(1-2): 259-283.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0169796X0602300215

PMID

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Abstract

The impact of economic globalization on low-income families in the global North and South provides the context for this article, which focuses primarily on the exploitation of child labor in agriculture, manufacturing, and the sex trade.The article reviews the relationship between economic globalization, poverty, and child labor, and highlights the ineffectiveness of domestic laws and international conventions for protecting children's rights and well-being. Solutions to the problems of child labor will necessarily have to address the underlying processes of economic globalization that are exacerbating global poverty and, consequently, increasing the need for poor families to depend on the paid labor of their children for survival.