Peer-reviewed article
Child Labour, Law and Society: An Appraisal
Jyotirmoyee Baruah ·
Summary
Written by AI, not yet AICS's view · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001This paper discusses child labour as a significant social problem exacerbated by industrialization, poverty, and illiteracy. The authors argue that addressing child labour requires four key elements: proper implementation of child labour laws, civil society engagement in reporting cases, elimination of root causes, and efficient judicial processing. The paper does not present empirical data or evaluate a specific intervention.
Key points
- Child labour has increased due to industrialization, chronic poverty, and illiteracy
- Four conditions are needed to address child labour: law implementation, civil society vigilance, elimination of causes, and swift judiciary action
- Children are described as important to society's future development
Limitations
The document provides no empirical evidence, data, or evaluation of any specific intervention or programme. It is a general policy discussion without reference to which countries it concerns or what specific laws and approaches have been tested.
Abstract
The problem of Child labour is a much debated issue. Child are viewed as the most important segment of our society as they are the future torchbearers of the society. However, with the development of industrialization, chronic poverty and illiteracy the problem of child labour has increased manifold. The menace of child labour can be removed our society only if proper implementation of law relating to child labour is made, vigilant civil society reports the cases of child labour to the executive authorities, the causes of the child labour are eliminated from society and judiciary disposes of the cases at the earliest.