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A will of their own; cross-cultural perspectives on working children.


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A will of their own; cross-cultural cross-cul·tur·al
adj.
Comparing or dealing with two or more different cultures: a cross-cultural survey; cross-cultural influences on an artist's work.
 perspectives on working children.

Liebel, Manfred Manfred (măn`frəd, Ger. män`frāt), c.1232–1266, king of Sicily (1258–66), the last Hohenstaufen on that throne. .

Zed Books

2004

321 pages

$29.95

Paperback

HD6231

In order to discuss the controversial and emotional topic of children's work from a subject-oriented perspective, Liebel (sociology, Technical U. of Berlin) focuses on working children themselves, and considers their work principally from the perspective of the meanings it has for them. He acknowledges that taking working children as active subjects requires a reconsideration re·con·sid·er  
v. re·con·sid·ered, re·con·sid·er·ing, re·con·sid·ers

v.tr.
1. To consider again, especially with intent to alter or modify a previous decision.

2.
 of the ideology and institutionalization Institutionalization

The gradual domination of financial markets by institutional investors, as opposed to individual investors. This process has occurred throughout the industrialized world.
 of childhood in the bourgeois West. Distributed in the US by Palgrave.

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