CHILD LABOR AND CHILD PROSTITUTION IN THAILAND: CHANGING REALITIES   Studies in Contemporary Thailand No. 18   By : Baker, Simon   (Bangkok, 2007)   216 pp., 1 map, 27 pp. charts, 150 x 210 mm, pbk.  Weight  0.340 Kg   Code :  E22549     Price :  US$19.00 Order book click....
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'Child Labour' and Child Prostitution in Thailand: Changing Realities, explains why there bas been a dramatic décline in Thai "chîld labour' numbers. Today, thé position of Thai children has never been better. Their lives differ greatly from their grandparents. parents, and even older siblings. They are fewer, as a proportion of thé total population, better educated, and far less likely to be working as child labourers or child prostitutes than at any other time. Changes to thé lives of Thai children hâve taken place over générations, particularly since thé late 1980s. At that time, thé onset of an économie boom, combined with fertility déclines, resulted in many children no longer working in thé rice fields or factories, but in their main occupation: study. This change has and will continue to resuit in major benefits to Thai society.