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Title: | The Invisible Child Worker in Kenya: The Intersection of Poverty, Legislation and Culture |
Author: | Suda, Collette A. |
Year: | 2001 |
Periodical: | Nordic Journal of African Studies |
Volume: | 10 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 163-175 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Kenya |
Subjects: | child labour households Labor and Employment Economics and Trade Law, Human Rights and Violence Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
External link: | https://www.njas.fi/njas/article/view/581/411 |
Abstract: | Although data on the prevalence and magnitude of child labour are inadequate, the number of children working under intolerable conditions in Kenya is estimated at over 3 million. This paper focuses on children working in the domestic sector, the difficulties experienced by them, socioeconomic and cultural forces which produce child labour and the implications of all this for sustainable action against child labour in Kenya. Child labour in the domestic sector is largely invisible. This invisibility is mainly attributed to the privacy of the domestic sector, the ineffectiveness of legislation, inadequate capacity on the part of the labour inspection unit, paucity of data, cultural values and perceptions as well as lack of public awareness. Poverty is one of the underlying causes of child labour and one that links with other factors in mutually reinforcing and complex ways. To be more effective, sustainable action against invisible child labour should be designed to put a great deal of emphasis on the empowerment of the community, the family and the working children as the central focus of attention and targeted local interventions, particularly in the urban slums. Bibliogr., sum. |