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Week 6
Feb 15, 2012
Lecture 6: Global inequality and globalization
Outline
I/ Global diversity and inequality
II/ Child work in global context
III/ Maternal and child health
IV/ Global economic policy
V/ Global movement of people
Main points
• There are global differences in understandings and experiences of young people
• Global inequality contributes to such differences and directly affects young people’s lives
• Children’s lives are shaped by local and global political and economic decisions.
I/ Global diversity and inequality
A) Geographic features
B) Religion and culture
C) Internal inequalities
-within nations
-within families
D) Global inequalities: across nations
1) Global income distribution: Charts
2) Global income distribution: From The Hungry Planet (2005) by Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluisio
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1626519,00.html#ixzz1lcd41wBw
3) Globalization
• Capital and commodities
• Policies
• Inequality
• Information
• Culture
• People
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• Environment
II/ Child work in a global context
1. General differences between industrialized nations and the global south
-Child work more common in global south
-Link to poverty
-Link to demand for cheap labour
-Lack of supported education
2. E.g. Boudillon, M. 2005. “Working Children in Zimbabwe” Sociological Studies of Children and Youth, 10, pp.7-
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• Child labour vs work
• Zimbabwe
• The African Charter on the Rights of the Child
• Similar issues in many other countries, including Pakistan
3. Addressing the situation?
• Accessible education
• Integrated approach
• Children’s say
• Monitoring
• Support for parents
4. Internationalization of capital and children’s work
• Multinational expansion