Working Schoolchildren in Britain Today
- 1 October 1997
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Capital & Class
- Vol. 21 (3) , 25-35
- https://doi.org/10.1177/030981689706300103
Abstract
In the scary media world of abused childhoods, child labour has become a major journalistic event. The news headlines record children working in conditions thought to have been abolished by social democratic reform. In spite of this mounting documentary evidence—supported by research undertaken by trade unions and pressure groups such as the Low Pay Unit—Tory ministers argued that child labour was not a problem. The Government's interest in youth was not the demoralisation of young workers at work, but the insubordination of youth, expressed as, among other things, crime, drug-taking and classroom disorder. The problem for conservative policy is the remoralisation of young people through the imposition of a new authority and the production of guides to the virtuous life.Keywords
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