ERIC Number: EJ840269
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2009
Pages: 20
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Social Actors and Victims of Exploitation: Working Children in the Cash Economy of Ethiopia's South
Abebe, Tatek; Kjorholt, Anne Trine
Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, v16 n2 p175-194 2009
This article explores the role of children in household livelihoods among the Gedeo ethnic community in Ethiopia. Three themes are discussed--reproductive activities, entrepreneurial work in marketplaces and sociospatial mobility--in the context of recent theoretical debates over children's agency and social competence. With shifts in rural livelihoods, children have developed new agentic and entrepreneurial skills in domestic work, trade and migration. This agency is negotiated in everyday life, but it is also structurally highly circumscribed. Situating children's work within post-rural economic development offers insight into the ways in which regional and global political economy shape their local livelihoods. (Contains 1 table.)
Descriptors: Economic Development, Ethnic Groups, Rural Economics, Child Labor, Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Rural Development, Interpersonal Competence, Housework, Child Welfare, Rural Areas, Political Issues, Social Problems, Child Role
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Ethiopia
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