7 Blurred Definitions and Imprecise Indicators: Rethinking Social Assistance for Children’s Work

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents iii
3. List of Figures, Tables and Boxes v
4. List of Abbreviations vii
5. Notes on Contributors x
6. Acknowledgements xvi
7. Foreword xvii
8. Children’s Work in African Agriculture: An Introduction 1
9. Theorizing ‘Harm’ in Relation to Children’s Work 24
10. Understanding Children’s Harmful Work: The Methodological Landscape 52
11. Education and Work: Children’s Lives in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa 81
12. Disabled Children and Work 116
13. Value Chain Governance and Children’s Work in Agriculture 141
14. Blurred Definitions and Imprecise Indicators: Rethinking Social Assistance for Children’s Work 174
15. Children’s Work in Ghana: Policies and Politics 204
16. Children’s Work in Shallot Production on the Keta Peninsula, South-Eastern Ghana 233
17. Children’s Work in West African Cocoa Production: Drivers, Contestations and Critical Reflections 251
18. Children’s Harmful Work in Ghana’s Lake Volta Fishery: Beyond Discourses of Child Trafficking 273
19. Children’s Work in African Agriculture: Ways Forward 296
20. Index 301