Category Archives: Former issues

The second unemplyed generation in the making

This study examines the issue of child poverty. Central to the analysis is the role of unemployment in the family and its effects on children. The study describes aspects of the life of children and their early integration in the world of work. It outlines trends of their future and makes suggestions about their prospects.

Calloused consciousness

It is not possible to resolve the problem of child poverty if we separate this issuefrom the wider issue of exploitation. By doing that, we shift the responsibility onto the world system that makes these and other extreme forms of exploitation. The article was first published in Dollars and Sense September-October 1999.