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This chapter has three sections. The first two sections give a brief overview of child labor in history, and provide some evidences that armed conflict would be a necessary, but not a sufficient condition for being a child laborer. The last section of this chapter reviews the dynamic of child labor in Thailand since 1968.
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Chen, K. (2021). Glimpses of Child Labor in History. In: Children Affected by Armed Conflict in the Borderlands of Thailand. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-1734-8_2
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