Children's Work, Schooling, and Welfare in Latin America
Childrens Work shows that child labor will not vanish of its own
accord, nor follow a uniform path even within a common geographic
region. Accordingly, there is a role for welfare policy and for
popular mobilization. Post indicates that, even when children
attend school, as in Peru or Mexico, many students will continue to
work to support the family. If the consequence of their work is to
impede their educational success, then schools will need to attend
to a new dimension of inequality: that between part-time and
full-time students.
David Post teaches and researches international children's education and welfare in the Department of Education Policy Studies at The Pennsylvania State University. With support from the Spencer and Ford Foundations, Post conducted this comparative case study of three Latin American societies. In addition to his work on child labor, Post has published studies on educational opportunity and access in Hong Kong and in California. Post has been a Fulbright-Hayes scholar, a Spencer Fellow, and worked as a visiting researcher in Peru, Mexico, and Hong Kong.
