Annotated Bibliography

1) "Children's Rights: Child Labor." Human Rights Watch . Copyright 2006. Apr. 2006 <http://www.hrw.org/children/labor.htm>.
This article provided information from the International Labor Organization that included statistics on countries that practice child labor, along with general information about what being a “child laborer” includes, a brief introduction to their lives, and quickly mentions what bonded child labor is. The article as a whole serves as an introduction to what child labor is. The Human Rights Watch is partnered with other organization and fights against the use of child labor around the world. Within this website, there are links to pages that go more in dept on different topics such as bonded child labor.

2) Haspels, Nelien, and Michele Jankanish, eds. Action Against Child Labour. Geneva: International Labour Organization, Copyright 2000. 293-302.
This book addresses the strategies and provides information necessary to plan and carry out effective action against child labor. Besides this, the book highlights child slavery and suggests strategies for preventing and eliminating it. It also emphasizes the need for coopertive and comprehensive approaches in order to attain success in eliminating problems such as child slavery.

3) Hobbs, Sandy, Jim McKechnie, and Michael Lavalette. Child Labor: a World History Companion. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 1999.
This book by Hobbs, McKechnie, and Lavalette covers many areas in the world that have dealt with child labor including China, and also more general information about topics such as accidents that occur and the lack of education these children have. It includes a brief summary of the history on how and why China 's accelerated economic growth is the main reason for their boom in child labor as well as the laws that go along with it.

4) Mendelievich, Elias, ed. Children At Work. Geneva: International Labour Organization, 1979.
This book gives a lot of information about child labor in general. It doesn't specify China , but it does include topics on why children work, child labor in practice, working and living conditions, and the education and training that are involved. It also includes some pictures of child laborers from different countries doing all sorts of jobs ranging from moving bricks to making rugs.

5) Ni, Ching-Ching. "China's Use of Child Labor Emerges From the Shadows." News and Press . Copyright 13 May 2005 Los Angeles Times. Apr. 2006 <http://www.laborrights.org/press/childlabor_china_0505.htm>.
This article by Ching-Ching Ni for the Los Angeles Times, addresses the death of five girls who were child laborers in China who had died. The main story is about them and the controversy that arose when it was discovered that two of the girls had been buried alive because the owner of the company they were working for was trying to hide that the girls were underage. This article also provides information on why children tend to leave their education behind and go into the child laboring business. Along with the main story, it also provides many other summaries of stories about accidents in the workplace that resulted in the deaths of many children. This article doesn't take a stand for or against child labor, but with the gruesome information they had, it's obvious which side they're on. More than anything, however, this article provides stories and an insight on how life is for the children and their families.

6) Seabrook, Jeremy. Children of Other Worlds: Exploitation in the Global Market . Sterling: Pluto P, 2001. 113-116.
Although this book written by Jeremy Seabrook is mostly about the child labor in Britain during the early 19th century and the present day Bangladesh, it offers insight on different things that I had not found in other sources, which is the aftermath of being a child laborer. It provides stories of different cases, including one about Shehana Begum, who gave insight through a first person narrative about her life as a child prostitute.

7) "The Small Hands of Slavery." Human Rights Watch . Copyright Sept. 1996. Apr. 2006 <http://www.hrw.org/reports/1996/India3.htm>.
This article by the Human Rights Watch told a short story about a girl who was ten years old and was forced into bonded labor. This section of the article was written in first person by the sister of the ten year old. It gave good insight on how little money (to us, but a lot for them) is needed to give them their freedom. Along with this, it gave recommendations to United Nations Agencies and other institutions on how to stop and prevent bonded child labor, but didn't give recommendations to the everyday person on how to help. Therefore, including the first person narrative, an important part of this article was talking about what bonded child labor is, and the factors behind it, including poverty and traditions.




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