Stories about Businesses
Between 2022 and 2023 CLARISSA researchers spent over 30 days accompanying and observing the day-to-day realities of owners and workers in ten informal enterprises that rely on child labour.
Spending time with business owners in their places of work, and developing trusting relationships with them, has enabled a rich understanding to emerge of the pressures, business models and working practices that create and sustain a need for worst forms of child labour.
Read about how children have become critical actors in the leather supply chain system in Bangladesh and the adult entertainment sector in Nepal.
Adult entertainment sector in
Nepal
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Exploring the hidden presence of sex work in a Kathmandu Khaja Ghar
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The business behind the curtain – a massage and spa venue in Kathmandu
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Blurred lines between a rural idyl and a more urban reality – a dohori in Kathmandu
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How customer preferences and financial incentives perpetuate sexualised work environments – a study of a dance bar
Leather sector in
Bangladesh
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Working with poor infrastructure in poor health – a tannery in Dhaka
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Making hand-made shoes for less than the price of machine-made shoes
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“In this sector both the employers and the staff members are poor” Leather cutting in Dhaka
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Production-based wages and child apprentices – shoe making in Dhaka
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“We know these chemicals are dangerous” A tannery in Dhaka
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The centrality of children to a precarious business – glove manufacturing
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Business Owners’ Perspectives on Running Khaja Ghars, Massage Parlours, Dance Bars, Hostess Bars, and Dohoris in Kathmandu, Nepal
Findings from semi-structured interviews conducted with business owners operating small, informal adult entertainment sector (AES) businesses in Kathmandu.
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The Drivers and Dynamics of the Worst Forms of Child Labour in Kathmandu’s Adult Entertainment Sector: A Synthesis of Five Years of Research by Children, Business Owners, NGOs, and Academics
Synthesis findings from CLARISSA participatory research on Kathmandu’s adult entertainment sector, with a focus on understanding the factors that drive the WFCL in the sector.
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Coming soon: “Worst forms of child labour in Bangladesh’s leather sector: a synthesis of findings from research with children, survivors and business owners in Bangladesh”
Synthesis findings from CLARISSA participatory research on Dhaka’s informal and domestic leather sector, with a focus on understanding the factors that drive the WFCL in the sector.
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Informal Economy Perspectives on the Prevalence of Worst Forms of Child Labour in Bangladesh’s Leather Industry
Findings from semi-structured interviews conducted with business owners operating small, informal leather sector businesses in and near Dhaka, Bangladesh
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