Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Editor and Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Editor's Introduction: Child Labor in Global and Historical Perspective -- Editor's Note: Measuring Child Labor -- Part 1: World -- Section 1. Understanding Child Labor -- The Economic View of Child Labor -- Social Science Views on Working Children -- A Brief Historiography of Child Labor -- Toward an Integrative Theory of Child Labor -- Section 2. More Developed Regions of the World -- Periods of History: Childhood and Child Work, c. 1800-Present -- Child Labor in the Industrial Revolution -- Coming to Terms with Child Labor -- Coming to Terms with Child Labor: The Historical Role of Education -- Coming to Terms with Child Labor: History of Child Welfare -- Coming to Terms with Child Labor: The Role of Technology -- Child Labor in the Developed Nations Today -- Global Trade and Child Labor -- Visual Representations of Child Labor in the West -- Section 3. Less Developed Regions of the World -- Worst Forms of Child Labor -- Worst Forms of Child Labor: Agriculture -- Worst Forms of Child Labor: Child Domestic Labor -- Worst Forms of Child Labor: Street Children and Street Trades -- Worst Forms of Child Labor: Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children -- Worst Forms of Child Labor: Children and War -- Worst Forms of Child Labor: Child Bonded Labor -- The Puzzle of "Idle" Children, neither in School nor Performing Economic Activity -- Child Labor Policy for Developing Nations -- Education and Child Labor: A Global Perspective -- Special Health Risks of Child Labor -- Section 4. Action Against Child Labor -- The United Nations and UNICEF -- Millennium Development Goals -- International Labor Organization (ILO) and the International Program for the Elimination of Child Labor (IPEC).

The Role of Nongovernmental Organizations -- The Role of Trade Unions -- Organization of Working Children -- The Economics of Consumer Actions Against Products with Child Labor Content -- Global March Against Child Labor -- Part 2: Sub-Saharan Africa -- Section 1. Introduction -- Child Labor in Postcolonial Africa -- Child Labor in Colonial Africa -- HIV/AIDS and Child Labor in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Influence of Orphanhood on Children's Schooling and Labor: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa -- Children's Work Among Traditional Healers in Africa -- Child Labor Unions in Africa -- Section 2. Western Africa -- Trafficking for Labor Exploitation in West and Central Africa -- Koranic Schools and Child Labor in West Africa -- Burkina Faso -- Child Labor in Burkina Faso -- Côte d'Ivoire -- Children's Work, Child Domestic Labor, and Child Trafficking in Côte d'Ivoire -- Gambia -- Ghana -- Child Labor in Ghana -- Guinea-Bissau -- Mali -- Child Labor in Mali -- Niger -- Nigeria -- Child Labor in Nigeria -- Children in Street Trading in Nigeria -- Child Labor in Nigeria: Historical Perspective -- Senegal -- Child Labor in Senegal: Contemporary and Historical Perspective -- Sierra Leone -- Togo -- Section 3. Middle Africa -- Child Soldiers in the Great Lakes Region of Africa -- Angola -- Cameroon -- Child Labor in Cameroon -- Central African Republic -- Chad -- Section 4. Eastern Africa -- Burundi -- Ethiopia -- Child Labor in Ethiopia: Overview and Policy Challenges -- Attending School, Learning, and Child Work in Ethiopia -- Kenya -- Child Labor in Kenya -- Children and Forced Labor in Colonial Kenya -- Madagascar -- Malawi -- Rwanda -- Tanzania -- Child Labor in Tanzania -- Uganda -- Child Labor in Uganda -- Zambia -- Child Labor in Zambia -- Zimbabwe -- Working Children in Zimbabwe -- Child Labor in Colonial Zimbabwe -- Section 5. Southern Africa -- Lesotho.

Namibia -- South Africa -- Mapping Children's Work in South African History -- Swaziland -- Part 3: Latin America and Caribbean -- Section 1. Introduction -- Child Labor in Latin America -- History of Childhood and Child Labor in Latin America -- Child Labor and Education in Latin America -- Children's Social Movements in Latin America -- Section 2. South America -- Worst Forms of Child Labor in the Andes Region -- Bolivia -- Child Labor in Bolivia -- Brazil -- Recent History of Child Labor in Brazil -- Child Street Vendors in Brazil -- Prostitution and Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents in Brazil -- Special Health Risks to Child Workers in Brazil -- The Intergenerational Persistence of Child Labor in Brazil -- Child Labor Labeling in Brazil -- Development of Child Labor Law in Brazil -- The History of Child Labor in Brazil -- Orphans and the Transition from Slave to Free Labor in Northeast Brazil -- Chile -- Colombia -- Child Labor in Colombia -- Ecuador -- Guyana -- Paraguay -- Peru -- Venezuela -- Section 3. Central America -- Belize -- Costa Rica -- El Salvador -- Child Labor in El Salvador -- Guatemala -- Child Labor in Guatemala -- Honduras -- Child Labor in Honduras -- Mexico -- Child Labor in Mexico -- Street Children in Mexico -- PROGRESA/Oportunidades: Mexico's School Stipend Program -- Impact of Temporary Labor Migration on Schooling Among Mexican Children -- History of Child Labor in Mexico -- Nicaragua -- Child Labor in Nicaragua -- Panama -- Section 4. Caribbean -- Child Slaves on West Indies Sugar Plantations -- Dominican Republic -- Haiti -- Child Labor in Haiti -- Jamaica -- Child Labor in Jamaica -- Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in Jamaica -- Part 4 North America -- Section 1. Canada -- Child Labor in Canada -- Children in Canadian Mining -- Nation Builders: Orphans in the Canadian Wilderness.

Evolution of Child Welfare Policy in Canada -- Section 2. United States -- History of Child Labor -- The Work of Enslaved Children in the United States -- Orphan Trains -- History of Children in U.S. Coal Mining -- Child Labor in the American Glass Industry -- Child Labor in American Textiles -- Child Labor in Commercialized Agriculture, 1890-1966 -- Evolution of U.S. Child Labor Policy -- Florence Kelley and the National Consumers League -- National Child Labor Committee -- Felix Adler -- Edgar Gardner Murphy -- Lewis Wickes Hine -- The U.S. Children's Bureau -- Child Labor and the United States Today -- Children in the Fields: America's Hidden Child Labor Problem -- Twenty-First-Century Adolescence in America -- American Students' Activism Against Global Child Labor -- Part 5: Europe -- Section 1. Introduction -- Europe: An Introduction and Overview -- European Proto-Industrialization -- European Industrialization and Child Labor -- History of Education in Europe: Schooling and Child Labor in Europe Since the Reformation -- Apprenticeship Practices in Europe -- Church and Child Labor-Catholicism -- Church and Child Labor-Protestant Reformation -- Section 2. United Kingdom -- History of Child Labor in Britain -- Pauper Apprenticeship in England -- History of Child Labor in Coal Mining in Britain -- Child Labor in the United Kingdom-Textiles -- Child Work in Agriculture in Britain -- Street Children and Street Trades in the United Kingdom -- Chimney Sweep-Cultural Icon -- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury -- National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children -- Child Work and Child Labor in the United Kingdom Today -- Section 3. Northern Europe -- History of Child Labor in the Nordic Countries -- Family Policy in the Nordic Countries -- Denmark -- Child Labor in the Danish Textile Industry -- Finland.

History of Child Labor in Finland -- Sweden -- History of Child Labor in Sweden -- Financial Incentives in Child Auctions in Nineteenth-Century Sweden -- Child Work and Child Labor in Sweden Today -- Section 4. Western Europe -- Belgium -- Child Labor in Belgium -- Child Labor in the Ghent Cotton Mills, Nineteenth Century -- France -- France: A Historical Overview -- Germany -- History of Child Labor in Germany: An Overview -- New Risks and New Opportunities in School-to-Work Transition: The Transformation of the German Apprenticeship System -- The Netherlands -- Child Labor in the Netherlands During Proto- and Early Industrialization -- Work, Education, and Discipline: Attitudes Toward Child Labor in the Netherlands, 1500 to 1875 -- Development of Child Labor Policy in the Netherlands Since 1874 -- Newspaper Delivery in the Netherlands -- Section 5. Southern Europe -- Albania -- Exploitation of Albanian Children in Greece -- Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Portugal -- History of Child Labor in Portugal -- Child Labor in Portugal Today -- Child Labor in Portuguese Textiles -- Spain -- Children's Work in Spanish Textiles During the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- Section 6. Eastern Europe -- Romania -- Child Labor in Romania -- Russia -- History of Child Labor in Imperial Russia -- Child Labor in the Russian Textile Industry -- Children in Sex Trades in Russia -- Position of Children and Child Labor in Russia Today -- Part 6: North Africa and Middle East (Western Asia) -- Section 1. North Africa -- History of Child Labor in North Africa -- Algeria -- History of Child Labor in Algeria -- Libya -- History of Child Labor in Libya -- Morocco -- History of Child Labor in Morocco -- Morocco: Why Children Go to Work Instead of School -- The Pyjama Trail Affair: A Case Study in Child Labor -- Small Maids in Morocco -- Tunisia.

History of Child Labor in Tunisia.