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Le Carre, John (sh) and child labour (sh)


Le Carre, John (sh)




orig. David John Moore Cornwell

born Oct. 19, 1931, Poole, Dorset, Eng.

British novelist.

As a member of the foreign service in West Germany from 1959, he acquired firsthand knowledge of international espionage. He began to write full-time after the Success of his third novel, the realistic, suspenseful The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963). The trilogy Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1974), The Honourable Schoolboy (1977), and Smiley's People (1980) centres on the intelligence agent George Smiley. Unlike Other fictional spies, Smiley is decidedly unglamorous, lonely, and alienated. Le Carre's Other novels include The Little Drummer Girl (1983), The Russia House (1989), and The Night Manager (1993). Many of his books were adapted for Film or Television.


child labour (sh)




Employment of boys and girls in occupations deemed unfit for children.

Such labour is strictly controlled in many countries as a result of the effective enforcement of laws passed in the 20th century (e.g., the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of the Child in 1959). In developing nations the use of child labour is still common. Restrictive legislation has proved ineffective in impoverished societies with few schools, although some improvements have resulted from global activism, such as boycotts of multinational firms alleged to be exploiting child labour abroad.