Bittersweet Harvest
Bittersweet Harvest
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苦乐参半的收获
DOI：
10.1177/0308275x9901900201
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发表时间：
1999
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Susan Levine
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作者：
Susan Levine
本文探讨了南非快速民主政治变革后童工立法的最新变化。它反映了工作儿童机构和他们对工作权利的捍卫，借鉴了西开普省葡萄酒产区的民族志研究。这篇文章认为，南非最近的反童工运动未能为贫困的黑人和有色人种儿童提供经济解决方案，这些儿童依靠有报酬的葡萄园工作来维持家庭经济。它认为，禁止童工的国际立法是短视的，因为它忽视了儿童在全球灵活的劳动力市场中所起的关键作用，并且由于将儿童与对成人的剥削分开，使产生童工的经济条件永久化。
This article explores recent transformations in child labour legislation in the wake of rapid democratic political change in South Africa. It reflects on working children’s agency and their defence of their rights to work, drawing on ethnographic research in the wine lands of the Western Cape Province. The article argues that recent anti-child labour campaigns in South Africa fail to provide economic solutions for destitute black and coloured children who depend on remunerated vineyard work to sustain household economies. It contends that international legislation prohibiting child labour is myopic because it ignores the key role that children play in the global flexible labour market and, by disaggregating child from adult exploitation, perpetuates the economic conditions which give rise to child labour.