COVER -- Working to Be Someone: Child Focused Research and Practice with Working Children -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION -- Part 1: Theoretical Approaches -- 1. Feminist Economist's Approach to Children's Work -- 2. Working Children and the Cultural Perception of Childhood -- 3. Harmed by Work or Developing Through Work?: Issues in the Study of Psychosocial Impacts -- 4. The Reintegration of Children into the Adult World of Work: Ominous Sign or Cause for Optimism? -- Part 2: Care and Domestic Work -- 5. Child Domestic Workers in Zimbabwe: Children's Perspectives -- 6. Negotiating Gender Identities: Domestic Work of Indian Children in Britain and in India -- 7. The Significance of Care and Domestic Work to Children: A German Portrayal -- 8. 'Helping at Home': The Concept of Childhood and Work Among the Nahuas of Tlaxcala, Mexico -- Part 3: Work and Competence -- 9. Children's Work as Preparation for Adulthood: A British Perspective -- . 10 Working Children in Fez, Morocco: Relationship Between Knowledge and Strategies for Social and Professional Integration -- 11. Working and Growing Up in America: Myths and Realities -- 12. Between Prohibition and Praise: Some Hidden Aspects of Children's Work in Affluent Societies -- Part 4: Participation of Working Children -- 13. Children's Work as 'Participation': Thoughts on Ethnographic Data in Lima and the Algarve -- 14. Child Employment in Northern Ireland: Myths and Realities -- 15. Vocabularies, Motives and Meanings - School-Age Workers in Britain: Towards a Synthesis? -- 16. Child Work and Child Labour in Italy: The Point of View of the Children -- 17. Work - A Way to Participative Autonomy for Children -- Part 5: Citizenship and Working Children's Movements and Organisations -- 18. The Stakes of Children's Participation in Africa: The African Movement of Working Children and Youth.

19. Working with Working Children in India -- 20. Dialogue and Empowerment for Change: The Influence of Organisations of Working Children in Southeast Asia on the Social Status of Working Children -- 21. Do the Participation Articles in the Convention on the Rights of the Child Present Us with a Recipe for Children's Citizenship? -- Part 6: Challenges and Perspectives for Research and Policy -- 22. Challenges for Social Research and Action with Working Children -- 23. Some Suggestions for Social Research on Working Children's Initiatives -- 24. The Balance Model Reconsidered: Changing Perceptions of Child Employment -- 25. Exploring Children's Work Through Pictures -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- THE CONTRIBUTORS -- SUBJECT INDEX -- AUTHOR INDEX.