An Estimated 246 Million Children Are Engaged In Child Labour. Of Those, Almost Three-Quarters (171 Million) Work In Hazardous Situations Or Conditions, Such As Working In Mines, Working With Chemicals And Pesticides In Agriculture Or Working With Dangero
This work examines the developments in the campaign against child labour and the defence of the rights of children.
This volume attempts to highlight the structural factors in capitalist societies that have made such exploitation possible, and to place the issue of child labour in a theoretical framework relating to capitalist modes of production and the ...
Based on evidence from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, this volume aims to improve our understanding about the link between trade, growth and child labour practices, as well as management of child labour in developing ...
Child Labour: A Textbook for University Students
This work considers the issue in three parts. The first section discusses child labor as a social and economic problem in America from an historical and theoretical perspective.
Contents: Child Labour in India: Some Issues, Role of the National Child Labour Project in Berhampur City of Orissa, Child Labour in India: Problems and Perspectives, Child Labour in Transport Sector A Study, Indian Child Labour: Challenges ...
This important book seeks to answer fundamental questions about child labour’s economic causes, the working conditions children endure, implications of their labour for the economic outlook of the countries concerned, and actions and ...
Submitted to the 174 ILO member States, this is a timely report, invaluable to all those who are working to bring to a halt such abusive conditions as bonded labour, child prostitution, and the exposure of children to dangerous chemicals, ...
Social welfare problems.
This disturbing work is based on first-hand field investigations carried out in the brassware, gem polishing, lock making, and glass factories. Utilizing data collected under adverse and even hostile conditions,...