Poverty is not ‘another culture’: Against a right of children to work to live

Abstract Well-being and protection of all children have widely been associated with universal rights. Simultaneously, though, there is growing advocacy for a right to work live. Drawing on cultural relativist premises, such strongly correlates an acceptance poverty as condition that inevitable or simply ‘given’. We advance argument against The fact only poor are compelled should direct analyses the causes poverty. A critical engagement politics development necessary it often constitutive relations impoverishment. critique Eurocentric perspectives advocate child labour substantiate our by drawing case example Bolivia, which lowered legal age labour, eventually retract this decision. demonstrate link between neoliberal rapid increase in number forced live since 1980s. not justifiable; but abolishing upholding their families dignity. Poverty ‘another culture’.