In the spirit of relentless self-promotion, here is an article that I have published in the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth about child labour, family economics and education. The article critiques the implicit use of modern idea(l)s about childhood in Africanist historiography by examining some of the scepticism towards schooling and the advantages of child labour in the colonial period.
Thanks to Johns Hopkins University Press for permission to deposit this in the SOAS eprints repository, which means that anyone can access the article for free.