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Child labour in small-scale mining : examples from Niger, Peru, and Philippines

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  • Jennings, Norman S.

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Young workers engaged by concession holders to work in small-scale mines are attractive for a number of reasons. Firstly, as they are working illegally, any complaints regarding wages or working conditions would likely be ignored. Secondly, young workers are generally compliant and tend not to question the tasks assigned to them and the living and working conditions they are faced with. The fact that wages are often not received until after the end of a work contract is undoubtedly a constraint on rebellion. Lastly, for many rural young people there is no alternative wage employment outside the small- scale mining sector; subsistence farming is neither attractive nor sustainable.

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  • Jennings, Norman S., 1999. "Child labour in small-scale mining : examples from Niger, Peru, and Philippines," ILO Working Papers 993346813402676, International Labour Organization.
    • Handle: RePEc:ilo:ilowps:993346813402676
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    3. Kuntala Lahiri‐Dutt, 2004. "Informality in mineral resource management in Asia: Raising questions relating to community economies and sustainable development," Natural Resources Forum, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 28(2), pages 123-132, May.
    4. Gastal Fassa, Anaclaudia., 2003. "Health benefits of eliminating child labour : research paper in conjunction with the ILO-IPEC study on the cost and benefits of the elimination of child labour," ILO Working Papers 993617453402676, International Labour Organization.
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    6. Jan Macháček, 2019. "Typology of Environmental Impacts of Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining in African Great Lakes Region," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(11), pages 1-24, May.
    7. Larsen, Peter Bille., 2003. "Indigenous and tribal children : assessing child labour and education challenges: child labour and education working paper," ILO Working Papers 993617113402676, International Labour Organization.

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