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Contemporary slavery : researching child domestic servitude / C. Nana Derby.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c2009.Description: xii, 152p. : maps ; 23cmISBN:
  • 9780761845126 (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HD6250.G532 D21
Contents:
Introduction and need for the study -- Children's childhood, rights, and child labor exploitation -- Research methods -- Processes of recruitment and the nature of relationships between domestic servants and their employers -- Culture of Ghana and its impact on child domestics -- Child domestic servitude as a household survival strategy -- Relationship between formal education and the incidence of child domestic servitude -- Child domestic servitude : the question on contemporary slavery -- Conclusions : historical and domestic and economic explanations of contemporary child domestic servitude.
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Books SDD-UBIDS Library General Stacks HD6250.G532 D22 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available WA-042207000169
Books SDD-UBIDS Library General Stacks HD6250.G532 D21 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available WA-04190040570

Includes bibliographical references (p. [143]-148) and index.

Introduction and need for the study -- Children's childhood, rights, and child labor exploitation -- Research methods -- Processes of recruitment and the nature of relationships between domestic servants and their employers -- Culture of Ghana and its impact on child domestics -- Child domestic servitude as a household survival strategy -- Relationship between formal education and the incidence of child domestic servitude -- Child domestic servitude : the question on contemporary slavery -- Conclusions : historical and domestic and economic explanations of contemporary child domestic servitude.

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