ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Sociol.
Sec. Work, Employment and Organizations
Volume 10 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2025.1619550
This article is part of the Research TopicStandard Employment Enclaves, Precarity and Informality: Explaining Employment Configurations in the Global SouthView all 5 articles
Sustainable Livelihood Approach (SLA) With Gender-Social Inclusion (GESI) Perspective for Child Labor Prevention and Remediation in Rural Areas of South Sulawesi, Indonesia
Provisionally accepted
- State University of Makassar, Makassar, Indonesia
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Child labor is a global problem and a common characteristic of poor and developing countries. It requires a system of prevention and remediation that is generated through community knowledge, which is sought through the Sustainable Livelihood Approach (SLA) with Gender and Social Inclusion (GESI). The SLA approach works by understanding the various factors within and outside the value chain that contribute to child labor. Child labor is commonly caused by poverty, household characteristics/traditions, parental education and employment, lack of access to education and labor market services, and socio-cultural background. Within the community, there are various components that can be utilized as a strategy to prevent and handle child labor, namely social capital, natural capital, financial capital, and human capital. The utilization of these four capitals can be implemented in child labor monitoring and remediation activities. Social capital relates to social networks, trust and empathy (social sensitivity). Natural capital is the potential that can be utilized in livelihoods, economic capital can be utilized as a means to create economic resilience, and human capital is expertise and skills.
Keywords: Child labor, prevention, remediation, rural, Sustainable livelihood approach
Received: 28 Apr 2025; Accepted: 21 Jul 2025.
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* Correspondence: Idham Irwansyah Idrus, State University of Makassar, Makassar, Indonesia
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