SCHOOL AGE WORKERS: THE PAID EMPLOYMENT OF CHILDREN IN BRITAIN
研究发现英国多数儿童在离校前从事带薪工作，且集中在低技能、低薪的服务业兼职岗位，这与雇主对兼职工的需求增加、家庭收入分配变化及休闲时间商品化有关。
The recognition that the majority of British children are involved in paid employment at some time before the minimum school leaving age has not been accompanied by comparable analytical advances. Large numbers work in areas beyond those traditionally identified with ‘children's work’ and are to be found in marginal, flexible, service sector jobs, defined by unskilled and low paid manual labour. The efforts of US researchers to link ‘adolescent work’ to child development and socialisation merely pathologises children's involvement in work, while the greater sensitivity of British researchers to the possible connections between work and changes to children's social lives provides only limited insight. It is demonstrated here that children's involvement in work is closely related to employers' increased demand for part-time student labour and that children are making themselves available for work in response to both the changing distribution of family income and the commodification of their leisure time.