Children of Other Worlds: Exploitation in the Global Market

by Jeremy Seabrook

Book Overview

More than 40,000 children die daily in the developing world from avoidable sickness and disease. Tens of millions of children labour in factories, mines, mills and sweatshops, or scavenge for a living on city streets and dumps. In the so-called developed world, children's lives are similarly blighted by drugs, alcohol, sexual abuse and violence. Children of the rich are unhealthily obsessed with consumerist desires while children of the poor suffer...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745313914
• ISBN13: 9780745313917
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.2" x 8.4"