Pageant princesses and math whizzes: understanding children's activities as a form of children's work.
Organized children's activities qualify as children's work, in much the same way that school work does. Both produce transferable use value and create capital that contributes to the future production of goods and services. To illustrate this argument, this article draws on qualitative research prim...
| Publicado en: | Childhood Vol. 16; no. 2; pp. 195 - 213 |
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| Formato: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Sage Publications Inc.
May2009
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