EPSY 256 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Child Care, Combined School, Crystallization

• School: UIC
• Department: Educational Psychology
• Course: EPSY 256
• Professor: Chung, Haeyoon

Document Summary

Care of animals done by adolescents and preadolescents. Household work done by women and their daughters. Gain skills and contacts that could lead to better job. Brutal work, miserable pay, long hours: adolescents earn one-third to one-half the pay of adults. Debt bondage : arrangement in which a person who is in debt pledges his labor or the labor of his children as payment. Number of child and adolescent laborers fell during first decade of 21st century. False promises of earning a decent wage for children and families. Dangerous work conditions that are detrimental to development. The history of adolescent work in the west. Laws restricted times and places children and adolescents could work. Number of adolescents in school through mid-teens rose. About 80% of high school students were employed. U. s. has the highest rate of adolescent employment in any other developed country. Few see job as basis for future career.