CHILDREN WORKING IN RURAL FAMILY FARMS: AN OVERVIEW
CHILDREN WORKING IN RURAL FAMILY FARMS: AN OVERVIEW

Summary/Abstract: Today sociological literature allocates a wide space to the mutual interactions within the family and their effects on parent-child relationship. Studies explore how the daily life of children is carried out and how children participate in institutions that are themselves shaped by their family relationships. However, the work engagement of children in family farms, which is a widely spread practice in many rural families, is receiving comparatively less attention from researchers. This paper aims to offers a systematic overview, analysis and interpretation of the international sociological literature concerning the topic of children working in rural family farms. The paper is discussing the main contemporary theoretical concepts, methodological directions and empirical research results concerning the work of children in the context of rural family socialization. The proposed outlook on the rural children work in family farms takes into account the similarities and differences emerging from the variety of social-economic and social-cultural contexts.

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