legal duty". and compulsory primary education is the policy instrument by which the sates effectively removed children from the work force. in India‚ child labour persists on a significant scale.Child labour is neither illegal nor is schooling compulsory.child labour usually refers to children up to the age of 14‚ following the ILO(international labour organisation) convention. It resolution on age of the employment‚concerning age for admission to the employment and that is 18. the occupations specified
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RESEARCH SUMMARY CHILD L ABOUR IN INDIA Economics of Child Labour A case study of the glass bangle industry BACKGROUND Child Labour The glass manufacturing industry in Ferozabad‚ Uttar Pradesh‚ produces bangles‚ utensils‚ bulbs‚ decorative articles etc. The glass industry has been classified as hazardous and the employment of child labour (children below age 14 years) in it is prohibited. However‚ available research and literature indicated that child labour was concentrated mainly
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CHILD MARRIAGE IN INDIA: Definition: Child marriage means that two children are forced to marry each other with the consent of the two families. The children are forced into the institution of marriage without knowing about its significance in the long run. Though parents are of the opinion that they involve their children in such rituals because it is an age old custom and it will also secure the future of their children but the reality is not so. Though in some cases parents believe in such superstitions
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(United Nations Children’s Fund) defines child labor as “work that exceeds a minimum number of hours‚ depending on the age of a child and on the type of work.” According to UNICEF‚ 158 million children‚ ages ranging from 5 to 14‚ are engaged in child labor. Many face life-threatening jobs‚ such as coal mining‚ metalwork‚ and other work that involve contact with pesticides‚ highly toxic chemicals‚ and sexually transmitted diseases. International Labour Organisation (ILO) states that‚ “the total
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children upto 14yrs in the workforce is 12626505 = 12.62 millions = child labour in 2001 (graph) 11% of the workforce of india is child labour. One in every 10 workers in India is a child! If you allocate a tenth of India’s GDP to this share you can see India’s Child Labour has a stake in India’s GDP POINTS TO PONDER: 1) In practice‚ however‚ the poverty argument does not hold water. Precisely the opposite is true: child labor maintains poverty. Because children are easy to exploit and are
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Child Labour Defination Wordsworth has said: “The child is father or the man.” Children are our future. Now when they are so important‚ we must realize what are doing for them. Have we succeeded in providing them the basic necessities of life such as education and health care? Although the government NGOs and other organizations are busy in solving the problem of child labour yet nothing seems to have come out of their work. Poverty is the main case of this failure. The poor parents are
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newly industrialized cities to find work. Once they got there‚ things did not look as bright as they did. To survive in even the lowest level of poverty‚ families had to have every able member of the family go to work. This led to the high rise in child labor in factories. Children were not treated well‚ overworked‚ and underpaid for a long time before anyone tried to change things for them. Wages and Hours: Children as young as six years old during the industrial revolution worked hard hours for
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Sociology report Child Labor Assigned by Dr. Javed Husain Group: Abdullah Hashmi (18016) Dedication: I would like to dedicate this report to our parents. Without their love‚ efforts and support I had not been able to become what I am right now. They have supported me all the way from beginning. They had been the great source of motivation and inspiration. Letter of acknowledgement: This is to acknowledge that the research I conducted‚ under the supervision of “Dr. Javed Hussain”
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Child Labor Child labor has been an international concern because it damages‚ spoils and destroys the future of children. The law in Indian soil says that any child below age of 14 cannot be employed either in a factory or office or restaurant. In fact India’s international business has been severely affected in many cases because child labors‚ violating human rights‚ have been used in some stage or the other in manufacturing‚ packaging a transport of those items. And in a large number of cases
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