Serdar M. Degirmencioglu, Hakan Acar, and Yüksel Baykara Acar
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781847426109
- eISBN:
- 9781447301714
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781847426109.003.0014
- Subject:
- Social Work, Children and Families
This chapter examines extreme forms of child labour in Turkey, focusing on forced labour and child trafficking. The process through which these children are made to work is revealed as closely ...
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This chapter examines extreme forms of child labour in Turkey, focusing on forced labour and child trafficking. The process through which these children are made to work is revealed as closely related to child slavery. Forced labour is a long-standing practice from northwestern Turkey of parents hiring children to better-off farmers. The other, a more recent phenomenon, involves children being trafficked to big cities and forced to join criminal rings. Both forced labour and child trafficking are consequences of poverty, but the possibilities for child exploitation are enhanced by the instability and lack of monitoring associated with the internal displacement of families. While agencies are becoming aware of the problem, their response is compromised by having little understanding of the fact that forced migration underpins many of the difficulties faced by children.Less
This chapter examines extreme forms of child labour in Turkey, focusing on forced labour and child trafficking. The process through which these children are made to work is revealed as closely related to child slavery. Forced labour is a long-standing practice from northwestern Turkey of parents hiring children to better-off farmers. The other, a more recent phenomenon, involves children being trafficked to big cities and forced to join criminal rings. Both forced labour and child trafficking are consequences of poverty, but the possibilities for child exploitation are enhanced by the instability and lack of monitoring associated with the internal displacement of families. While agencies are becoming aware of the problem, their response is compromised by having little understanding of the fact that forced migration underpins many of the difficulties faced by children.
James K. Galbraith
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814772836
- eISBN:
- 9780814748695
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814772836.003.0011
- Subject:
- Sociology, Economic Sociology
This concluding chapter contends that learning from the global financial crisis depends on a willingness to ask new and sometimes more basic questions. It suggests that the crisis narrowly conceived ...
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This concluding chapter contends that learning from the global financial crisis depends on a willingness to ask new and sometimes more basic questions. It suggests that the crisis narrowly conceived has broad analogs. Those who made and sold unsound mortgages were like counterfeiters trading fake money. It was not that there was a criminal ring, but rather that the financial industry as a whole resembled a criminal ring. One crucial point is that the discipline did not recognize this. In fact, the rise of modern financial economics helped make this possible while the discipline as a whole was dominated by an orthodoxy that obscured what was going on. The chapter describes that the entire discipline was overrun by a “radical cult” and that its interests were perfectly aligned with predatory financial power. It concludes with a discussion of the importance of multiple perspectives about the global financial system.Less
This concluding chapter contends that learning from the global financial crisis depends on a willingness to ask new and sometimes more basic questions. It suggests that the crisis narrowly conceived has broad analogs. Those who made and sold unsound mortgages were like counterfeiters trading fake money. It was not that there was a criminal ring, but rather that the financial industry as a whole resembled a criminal ring. One crucial point is that the discipline did not recognize this. In fact, the rise of modern financial economics helped make this possible while the discipline as a whole was dominated by an orthodoxy that obscured what was going on. The chapter describes that the entire discipline was overrun by a “radical cult” and that its interests were perfectly aligned with predatory financial power. It concludes with a discussion of the importance of multiple perspectives about the global financial system.
