"Tell me how it was": Public policies and child labor in Portugal and the Portuguese colonies
Project Title
"Tell me how it was": Public policies and child labor in Portugal and the Portuguese colonies
Start and End of Project
2016 - ongoing
Chief Investigator
Professor Pedro Goulart
Project Reference
PTDC/IIM-ECO/5303/2014
Funding Entity
Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT)
Research Team
| Researcher Name | Institutional Afiliation |
| Celeste Quintino | ISCSP/Universidade de Lisboa |
| Maria da Luz Ramos | ISCSP/Universidade de Lisboa |
| Elsa Peralta | Centro de Estudos Comparatistas, Universidade de Lisboa |
| Arjun Bedi | Erasmus University Rotterdam |
| Aurora Almada | IHC, Universidade Nova de Lisboa |
| Ewout Frankema | Wageningen University |
| Luis Mota | CAPP, ISCSP |
| Paula Campos Pinto | CAPP, ISCSP |
| Pedro Aires Oliveira | IHC, Universidade Nova de Lisboa |
Project Summary:
Public policies on child labor in the European periphery or the colonies remain under-researched in the literature, which also neglects the potential interactions between countries. This project will address these gaps by examining Portugal and its former colonies and which policies are more likely to be effective in today’s developing countries. The research on Portuguese-speaking countries will also contribute to the recent revival of African economic history, particularly when Portuguese colonial records are still underused.