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.

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.

Child poverty and income inequalities among families with children have increased steadily in the co-called developed countries of the West too. Recently, there is a threat that these differences will increase sustantially. Mainstream experts usually justify this process by ecoinomic necessities. This paper demonstrates these trends on the example of East European countries.

Most people are convinced it is good thing to have been schooled and it makes one able to make a judgement on facts and information as well as to think rationally. Educated peoples are supposed to be defenders of democracy. Empirical research, however, suggests that the main function of education is socialisation. (Extract from the book Lies my teacher told me).

From the 1980s, a radical change of view has taken place in the Southern Slav history books dealing with the 20th century. As opposed to the integrism and class struggle, an inward looking nationalism emerged. The entire history of the 20th century has been re-interpreted in a nationalist sentiment.