The academic literature on children‘s work is increasingly moving towards a position in which children‘s involvement in paid work is appreciated as both potentially harmful and emancipatory (see for e.g., Bourdillon et al 2010, Aufseeser et al 2018). Such a nuanced position, however, stands in stark contrast with the policy reality in Ethiopia and to a lesser extent globally. In this thesis, I zoom in on the case of working children in the urban weaving economy drawing from 12 months of ethnographic fieldwork and school survey in Addis Ababa.

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This research was funded by the Netherlands Fellowship Programme (NFP)
M.N. Spoor (Max) , K. Arts (Karin) , R.B.C. Huijsmans (Roy)
Erasmus University Rotterdam
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ISS PhD Theses
International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University (ISS)

Taye, F. (2019, February 20). Changing childhoods, places and work: the everyday politics of learning-by-doing in the urban weaving economy in Ethiopia. ISS PhD Theses. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1765/116460