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Title: | Girl farm labour and double-shift schooling in The Gambia: the paradox of development intervention |
Author: | Kea, Pamela |
Year: | 2007 |
Periodical: | Canadian Journal of African Studies |
Volume: | 41 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 258-288 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Gambia |
Subjects: | child labour girls schooling educational policy |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/40380212 |
Abstract: | This article examines the intensification of Gambian girls' domestic and farm labour contributions as a result of the introduction of double-shift schooling. Drawing on fieldwork among female farmers and their daughters in Brikama, Western Division, in 1996/1997 and 2005, the article puts forth the following arguments: double-shift schooling facilitates the intensification and increased appropriation of surplus value from girls' household and farm labour because girls are more readily able to meet gendered labour obligations that are central to the moral economy of the household and to the demands of agrarian production; second, double-shift schooling highlights the paradoxical nature of development intervention where, on the one hand, legislation and policy call for a reduction in child labour by increasing access to school and, on the other, neoliberal educational policy serves to facilitate the intensification of girls' domestic and farm labour. The paper maintains that the intensification of girls' work must be placed within a wider context where children's - particularly girls - cheap, flexible and/or unremunerated labour is central to the functioning of local and global processes of accumulation. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in English and French [Journal abstract] |