control over resource access

Cards (3)

  • industrial societies
    -children have only limited opportunities to earn money
    -remain dependent economically on adults
  • how do children remain economically dependent on adults
    -labour laws & compulsory schooling exclude them from all but most marginal, low-paid, part time schooling
    -state bays child benefits > goes to parents
    -pocket money may depend on 'good behaviour' & restrictions on what to spend it on
  • what does this contrast?
    -economic role of children in developing societies today
    -Katz > Sudanese children already engaged in productive work from ages 3/4