Good Kids The Politics of Child Labor in the Global South

"Good Kids provides a fresh perspective on the place of work in children's lives. The author makes a useful contribution to our understanding of recognition by highlighting how moral entrepreneurs who oppose child labor overlook its role in promoting young people's a sense of worth and dignity while they contribute to their family's welfare. Her book offers an important corrective to widely shared assumptions about the agency of low-income children."
-Michèle Lamont, author of Seeing Others: How Recognition Works and How it Heals a Divided World "With passion combined with impressive research, including poignant interviews with child workers, Isabel Jijon takes on the contentious issue of global child labor. What explains, she asks, children's frequent opposition to legislation regulating their work? While acknowledging the exploitation of child laborers, Good Kids reveals unexpected social and moral meanings of their work. The book will engage specialists in childhood, family, and economic sociology."
-Viviana A. Zelizer, Professor of Sociology at Princeton University and author of Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children