[Globalised Childhoods and the Spaces of Work and Social Reproduction]

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Globalised Childhoods and the Spaces of Work and Social Reproduction

The wave of globalization, while leaving indelible marks on how the world exists, has greatly affected the fate of the children as well. The concept of childhood keeps redefining itself in the ever-changing world dynamics. With the upsurge of capitalism, children's involvement in labour also increased, their woes multiplied by global inequalities and social problems like child labour, sexual abuse, poverty, mass-scale immigration and capitalism.(Tannock 2001, 45)

This is compounded by the exploitation of some employers who want to have cheap labor and ...