Negotiating change: Working with children and their employers to transform child domestic work in Iringa, Tanzania

Children's Geographies

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 205-220

  Klocker, Natascha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Action; Child domestic work; Participation; Regulation; Social constructionism

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957542294     PISSN: 14733285     EISSN: 14733277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14733285.2011.562381     Document Type: Article

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