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Thursday, October 16, 2008

Child Labour in China's Informalized Urban Industrial Sector

Child Labour in China's Informalized Urban Industrial Sector
Asia Monitor Resource Centre
Child workers are a clear example of the precarious labour that exists in the informal economy. Laws about minimum working age make it illegal for them to work, but economic and social realities leave them little other choice. The result is that children under the legal working age continue to work, but in precarious conditions beyond the scope of government regulation.

 



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