Child Labor and Africanist Scholarship: A Critical Overview

African Studies Review

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 1-25

  Grier, Beverly ^a  

^a CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 34247656998     PISSN: 00020206     EISSN: 15552462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0002020600030833     Document Type: Article

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