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Globalization and Child Labor

Review of the Issues

Erica G. Polakoff is Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies at Bloomfield College, NJ, where she co-founded the Women's Studies, Latino/Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and Honors Programs. She received her PhD in Sociology,Women's Studies and Latin American Studies from Cornell University. Her research has focused on low-income communities and grassroots organizations (women's, labor, and neighborhood associations) in Bolivia, Nicaragua, and more recently, Mexico, during times of economic and political crisis. A documentary photographer, Polakoff has published and exhibited her photographs of these and other research projects. Address: Social and Behavioral Sciences, Bloomfield College, 467 Franklin St., Bloomfield, NJ. [email: erica_polakoff{at}bloomfield.edu; epolakoff{at}earthlink.net]

The impact of economic globalization on low-income families in the global North and South provides the context for this article, which focuses primarily on the exploitation of child labor in agriculture, manufacturing, and the sex trade.The article reviews the relationship between economic globalization, poverty, and child labor, and highlights the ineffectiveness of domestic laws and international conventions for protecting children's rights and well-being. Solutions to the problems of child labor will necessarily have to address the underlying processes of economic globalization that are exacerbating global poverty and, consequently, increasing the need for poor families to depend on the paid labor of their children for survival.

Key Words: child labor • economic globalization • world poverty • children's rights

Journal of Developing Societies, Vol. 23, No. 1-2, 259-283 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0169796X0602300215


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