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Child labour in high performance and professional sport: The struggle for children's rights.
- Source :
- Annals of Leisure Research; Aug2024, Vol. 27 Issue 3, p361-380, 20p
- Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- Children's right to play and leisure has historically and currently been violated by the many demands of adults. This is now evident in the widespread structuring of the time of middle-class children in programmed activities, including sports. In a contribution to this special issue on leisure, citizenship and human rights the paper begins with an overview of how participation in sports became so work-like for many children. This is followed by an examination of the struggle to define such work as child labour. And the paper concludes with a consideration of how it may be possible to transform sport, protecting participants under the framework of children's and labour rights – nurturing children accomplished in sport without exploiting or abusing them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- CHILD labor
PROFESSIONAL sports
CHILDREN'S rights
LEISURE
CHILD abuse
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 11745398
- Volume :
- 27
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Annals of Leisure Research
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 178232702
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/11745398.2023.2232056