Combating Child Labour. (book reviews)

Combating Child Labour

Edited by Assefa Bequele and Jo Boyden. Geneva: International Labour Office, 1988.

Unfortunately, the horrifying world of child labor, as vividly depicted by Charles Dickens and other nineteenth-century observers, still flourishes throughout the globe, especially in the less developed countries. The opaque and turgid prose of this official United Nations publication cannot completely obscure the anguish and hopelessness experienced by child laborers, mainly male, working in the leather works in Cairo, Egypt; as carpet weavers in the Varana