Review of African Political Economy - Vol. 13 No. 36 Child Labour and Health in Africa

Abstract of Note

Title:	Child Labour and Health in Africa
Location:	Vol.13 No.36 (Summer 1986), p41

Child labour is a world-wide problem not peculiar Africa: it exists wherever poverty drives families to put their children out to work. Italy recently applied anti-slavery laws to break up a vast racket involving the buying and selling of 10,000 children between the ages of 7 and 13 who were being trained as pick-pockets and thieves. The ILO estimated in 1979 that 52 million children are regularly employed and another 42 million work without pay for their families

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