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The book addresses the case of child labour by moving beyond the usual concern that regards the phenomenon essentially as 'evil', harmful and corrupt, and instead attempts to assess children’s work in the relevant socio-economic and cultural context. It examines the specification of girl child labour in the garment industry and underlines how tradition, culture, religion, and sexual division of labour determine the parameters within which they live, work and resist patriarchal control and differential treatment at home and in the workplace.
Sumaiya Khair
Sumaiya Khair is a Professor at the Department of Law, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh where she served as the Head of the Department from 2009-2011. She is currently on leave and serving Transparency International Bangladesh as its Deputy Executive Director. She has a Ph.D. from the UK where she also studied as a Commonwealth Post-Doctoral Academic Fellow. She sits on editorial boards of international law journals and on governing boards of development sector organisations. She writes on law, justice, human rights and governance and has to her credit a number of publications in national and international books and journals.
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