Publisher's Synopsis
The voices of nearly 360,000 children and over 164,000 parents, from both urban and rural areas in 25 developing countries, have been pooled together in this book to analyse their experiences, perceptions, priorities and aspirations on the multiple dimensions of the phenomenon of child labour. Data was collected through national child labour surveys carried out during 1999 and 2011. Synthesising the children's and their parents' own perceptions of why children work, the consequences on family welfare if children stopped work, their future aspirations and the reasons for children not attending school, the study notes striking similarities between the children's and parents' mindsets across countries with diverse social, economic, cultural and political contexts.
