{"id":508,"date":"2025-10-02T03:47:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/lieten-kristoffel\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T03:47:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:47:43","slug":"lieten-kristoffel","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/lieten-kristoffel\/","title":{"rendered":"Lieten Kristoffel"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"content column wide left normal content view\" id=\"content\">\n<div class=\"rounded-corner\"><\/div>\n<article class=\"fader\">\n<header class=\"contents\">\n<h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tKristoffel Lieten<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article\">\n<div class=\"author_addthis\">\n<div class=\"addthis\">\n\t<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><\/p>\n<div class=\"addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style\" addthis:title=\"Lieten Kristoffel\">\n\t\t<a class=\"addthis_button_facebook_like\" fb:like:layout=\"button_count\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<a class=\"addthis_button_tweet\" tw:via=\"thebrokeronline\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<a class=\"addthis_counter addthis_pill_style\"><\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/js\/250\/addthis_widget.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n\t\t<!-- AddThis Button END -->\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"body contents\">\n<div class=\"object-left\">\n<div class=\"img border\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"><b>Kristoffel Lieten<\/b> (Belgium, 1946) has worked extensively on political developments in South Asia and on issues related to development sociology. He is the Child Labour Studies chair at the University of Amsterdam and at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. Lieten is also the director of the IREWOC foundation (Institute for Research on Working Children). In addition to several books on development issues in South Asia, he has written and edited several books on children: <i>Child Labour. Policy Perspectives<\/i> (2001); <i>Small Hands in South Asia<\/i> (2004); Children around the World. Child Rights and Child Reality (2004), <i>Children, Work and Labour<\/i>. <i>Glimpses from India<\/i> (2005), <i>Children, Structure and Agency<\/i>. <i>Field Realities across the World<\/i> (2008), and Child Labour\u2019s Global Past (2009). He is on the editorial advisory board of several journals and is a frequent commentator on Asian Affairs in the Dutch media.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"children\">\n<div class=\"article\">\n<section class=\"children related\">\n<div class=\"article\">\n<div class=\"wleft\">\n<div class=\"img\">\n<div class=\"heading\"><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/var\/broker\/storage\/images\/media\/images\/broker-10\/child-labour\/10265-3-eng-gb\/child-labour_column.jpg\" alt=\"All work and no play\"><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"wright\">\n<header>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\">All work and no play<\/a><\/h3>\n<h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/lieten-kristoffel\/\">Kristoffel Lieten<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t|<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOctober 07, 2025<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h4>\n<\/header>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">\n\t\t\tThe struggle against child labour is showing results. 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