Defining the Intolerable
@article{White1999DefiningTI, title={Defining the Intolerable}, author={Benjamin G. White}, journal={Childhood}, year={1999}, volume={6}, pages={133 - 144} }
This article explores some of the unresolved tensions between `universalistic' and `relativistic' approaches in the establishment of standards and strategies designed to prevent or overcome the abuse of children's capacity to work. Global standards (on children's rights, on unacceptable or intolerable forms of children's work, etc.) require universal notions of (ideal, normal or `tolerable') childhood, while cultural relativism stresses the idea that notions of childhood are themselves socially…
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