Globalisation and Child Labour

Abstract

The recent heightened interest in the phenomenon of child labour is part of a wider discourse on child’s rights which has engaged the attention of international policy makers since the eighties.  The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is one important manifestation of this new discourse.  It would not be out of place to point out that both this discourse on child’s rights and the one on child labour are taking place in a particular international context, i.e. that of globalisation.