Child Labour and Capitalist Social Engineering in Africa: Divorcing Society from the Means of Production

I. Abdullah
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This article engages with some salient issues relating to child labour in colonial and post-colonial Africa. The central argument hinges on the inconclusive assault of capital on pre-capitalist socio-economic formation in Africa and the urgent intellectual task of liberating the study of child labour from humanitarian, United Nations and non-governmental organisation bureaucrats by privileging the voices of children themselves. The first section deals with historiographical issues, while the second focuses on agriculture, aspects of urban poverty and the emergence of a Lumpenproletariat to examine the transformation from above which took place after the colonial state was created at the turn of the century. The third section addresses two insidious categories of child labour in the post-colony: child trafficking and child soldiers. The final section grapples with the moral economy of child labour by interrogating the complex array of instruments that have emerged on the global scene to address what is today seen as the child labour ‘problem’.
非洲的童工与资本主义社会工程:社会与生产资料的分离
这篇文章涉及一些与殖民时期和后殖民时期非洲的童工有关的突出问题。本书的核心论点在于,资本对非洲前资本主义社会经济形态的攻击是不确定的,而把童工研究从人道主义、联合国和非政府组织的官僚手中解放出来,赋予儿童自己的特权,这是一项紧迫的智力任务。第一部分涉及史学问题,而第二部分侧重于农业,城市贫困方面和lumpenproletariers的出现,以检查在世纪之交殖民国家创建后发生的自上而下的转变。第三部分讨论了后殖民地时期两类阴险的童工:贩卖儿童和儿童兵。最后一部分通过询问全球范围内出现的一系列复杂的工具来解决今天被视为童工“问题”的问题,从而解决童工的道德经济问题。
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