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CHILDREN OF OTHER WORLDS: Exploitation in the Global Market
Jeremy Seabrook
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Paperback. Seabrook pulls no punches in this examination of how global markets exploit children throughout the world - child 'consumers' in the West and child producers in the South. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: JFFE1; JHBL; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 135 x 11. Weight in Grams: 363.
More than 40,000 children die daily in the developing world from avoidable sickness and disease. Tens of millions of children labour in mines, mills and sweatshops, or scavenge for a living on city streets and dumps. In the so-called developed world, children's lives are similarly blighted by drugs, alcohol, sexual abuse and violence. Children of the rich are unhealthily obsessed with consumerist desires while children of the poor suffer from lack of opportunity. The global market is responsible for both of these ills. In Children of Other Worlds Jeremy Seabrook examines the international ... Read more
More than 40,000 children die daily in the developing world from avoidable sickness and disease. Tens of millions of children labour in mines, mills and sweatshops, or scavenge for a living on city streets and dumps. In the so-called developed world, children's lives are similarly blighted by drugs, alcohol, sexual abuse and violence. Children of the rich are unhealthily obsessed with consumerist desires while children of the poor suffer from lack of opportunity. The global market is responsible for both of these ills. In Children of Other Worlds Jeremy Seabrook examines the international ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Pluto Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745313917
SKU
V9780745313917
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99-50
About Jeremy Seabrook
Jeremy Seabrook is a journalist and writer. He has written for the New Statesman, Guardian, Times and Independent. He writes plays for stage and TV and is the author of numerous books including Pauperland (Hurst, 2013), The Song of the Shirt (Hurst, 2015) and Cut Out (Pluto, 2016).
Reviews for CHILDREN OF OTHER WORLDS: Exploitation in the Global Market
'Not just a study of children's work in Bangladesh, but also a reminder of the debates about child labour in Britain ... Seabrook's passionate reporting and advocacy deserves a wide readership'
Richard Gott, The Independent
Richard Gott, The Independent