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Small Bodies, Large Contribution: Children's Work in the Tobacco Plantations of Lombok, Indonesia

Small Bodies, Large Contribution: Children's Work in the Tobacco Plantations of Lombok,... Children contribute substantially to the workforce needed to produce tobacco in Indonesia. Drawing on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork, I discuss the reasons behind children's economic involvement in tobacco cultivation in the eastern region of the island of Lombok in eastern Indonesia. I explore children's paid work in the plantations by looking at the three dimensions of their economic lives: the local economy, their households and their individual lives. I address the tension between children's agency and the systems that constrain it. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology Taylor & Francis

Small Bodies, Large Contribution: Children's Work in the Tobacco Plantations of Lombok, Indonesia

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Small Bodies, Large Contribution: Children's Work in the Tobacco Plantations of Lombok, Indonesia

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Children contribute substantially to the workforce needed to produce tobacco in Indonesia. Drawing on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork, I discuss the reasons behind children's economic involvement in tobacco cultivation in the eastern region of the island of Lombok in eastern Indonesia. I explore children's paid work in the plantations by looking at the three dimensions of their economic lives: the local economy, their households and their individual lives. I address the tension...
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Taylor & Francis
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Copyright The Australian National University
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1740-9314
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1444-2213
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10.1080/14442210903540393
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Abstract

Children contribute substantially to the workforce needed to produce tobacco in Indonesia. Drawing on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork, I discuss the reasons behind children's economic involvement in tobacco cultivation in the eastern region of the island of Lombok in eastern Indonesia. I explore children's paid work in the plantations by looking at the three dimensions of their economic lives: the local economy, their households and their individual lives. I address the tension between children's agency and the systems that constrain it.

Journal

The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology – Taylor & Francis

Published: Mar 1, 2010

Keywords: Children; Indonesia; Work; Tobacco growing; Ethnography; Agency; Households

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