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.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 34-51 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| Journal | Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| Publication status | Published - Mar 2010 |
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