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Peer-reviewed articleOpenAlex1 Jan 2023

The Neglected Consequences of Child Labour

Child labour is a major social problem that contributes to poor physical health and lower educational achievement. Professor Alberto Posso (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) worked with Professor Simon Feeny (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology), Dr Ahmed Skali (University of Groningen), Professor Amalendu Jyotishi (Azim Premji University), Dr Shyam Nath (Amrita University) and Dr P. K. Viswanathan (Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham) to address important gaps in the literature by conducting a large-scale study of children in rural areas of India. This work confirms the hugely negative impact of child labour on psychosocial well-being and opens up important implications for policy, practice and future research.

Alberto Posso

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OtherOpenAlex24 Jun 2022

The Impact of Child Labour Laws in Pakistan

Child labour refers to the employment of children in any work that deprives children of their childhood, interferes with their ability to attend school regularly, and is dangerous mentally, physically, socially or morally is harmful.This process is considered exploitative by many international organizations.Legislation around the world prohibits child labour.These laws do not consider all child labour to be child labour.The research in hand deals with the new amendment in child labour Act and its impact on the minors in Pakistan.How the international organizations work for the betterment of children all over the world, including the work of UNICEF, ILO.UNICEF and ILO have differentiated between child work and child labour.According to them if a child helps in the house chores or family business but it doesn't affect his health or schooling it doesn't fall in the category of child labour but if it does affect a child's physical health, psychological health and schooling, it falls in the category of child labour.

Qarar Shah

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Peer-reviewed articleOpenAlex31 Dec 2023

Condition of child labour in restaurant

This research study was carried out to reflect Child Labourer's condition in Restaurants of Sundhara which is situated in Kathmandu Metropolitan city. This study is focused on child labourers in restaurants of Sundhara. Till date nobody has made it a research area to carry out a child labourer's condition. Both descriptive and analytical research design has been used in this research. The initiative has been taken to include both qualitative and quantitative data statistics in the research. In this study, data were collected by using purposive sampling method of child labour worked in Restaurants Kathmandu Metropolitan city Sundhara. 30 Child labourers have been involved for the research. Both primary and secondary data has been collected for the study. The collected data has been presented in tabulated from data obtained in numeric form have been presented with number and percentage forming a table and data which are not obtained in numeric form have been presented in descriptive way. The sector of child labour in Nepal basically in Sundhara, Kathmandu the situation of child labourers was found so pathetic. Children are working in poor condition without having proper food, proper place to stay and sleep no rest while working and more above that children are not getting any education for their bright future. Though there are lots of NGOs and INGOs working in the child sector but the situation of children is not progressive way.

Sakuntala Tripathi

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Peer-reviewed articleOpenAlex1 Jul 2022

The Determinants of child labour in India: Examining the Impact of Determinants on Child Labour Incidence in India

Child labour is one of the problems that prevails in India. Childhood is a period of schoollearning,of recreation, of physical, mental and social development, and not primarily of income bearingwork. For the present study, the employment and unemployment survey conducted in 1993-94, 1999-2000,2004-05, and 2011-12 has been used. It has been found that Incidence of child labourers has reduced from6.5 to 1.5 during 1993-94 to 2011-12. The determinants has statistically significant impact onincidences of chila labour in India.

Anamika Anamika

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Peer-reviewed articleOpenAlex13 Mar 2020

AN OVERVIEW ON CHILD LABOUR IN INDIA

Child labour is a concrete manifestation of violations of a range of rights of Children or Working children. They are denied of their right to survival, development, education, leisure, play, adequate standard of living, opportunity for developing personality, talents, mental and physical abilities and protection from abuse and neglect. Notwithstanding the increase in the Enrolment of children in elementary schools and increase in literacy rates since 1980‘s, child labour continues to be a significant phenomenon in India.

Rajmohan R. Pillai, R. Sivakumar

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Peer-reviewed articleOpenAlex25 Apr 2024

Child labour and schooling in Tanzania

In this paper, I examine child labour and schooling in Tanzania. I use Tanzania Labour Force Survey data containing detailed information on children aged 5–17. I find that girls are more likely to do household chores and spend more hours on household chores than boys. On the other hand, boys are more likely to do activities for pay, profit or home use and spend more hours on economic activities than girls. I also find a positive and statistically significant relationship between the number of children below 5 years (preschoolers) and the time children aged 5–17 years spend on household chores, suggesting that the latter may be spending more time caring for the former. Furthermore, I find a negative and statistically significant relationship between asset ownership and child labour. Concerning child labour and the educational performance of the children, I find that children who were engaged in household duties or economic activities, children who did any activities for pay, profit or home use and those who spent more hours on household chores are more likely to perceive that they get poor grades at school because of work. Regarding potential pathways, time spent by the children on economic activities, household chores and working in any activities for pay, profit or home use are found to affect the children's regular school attendance or studies.

Francisco M.P. Mugizi

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Peer-reviewed articleOpenAlex31 Mar 2018

CHILD LABOUR : A SOCIOLOGICAL STUDY

Child laboir is universal phenomenon. While there is no accurate accounting of how many of the world‟s children contribute to their families or their own economic support, the number of working children is surely in the hundreds of millions globally.With the advent of modern industrial system there came a tendency among the employers to earn easy and quick profits at less expenses. That is why, the employment of children in factories at low rate of remuneration became the frequent practice. They had to work for excessive hours under unhealthy, terrible and hazardous conditions. Child labour is both an economic and social problem. The term child labour brings before the eyes, picture of exploitation of little, weak, tender and underdeveloped bodies, illiteracy, physical abuse in the term of beatings by employers and accident often fatal at work sites. The problem with child labour is that it can hardly be legislated away as its roots lie in abject poverty . Where social and economic condition have improved children go to school and child labour for virtually disappeared. So any society which wants its children to be free to learn and play, first free entire population from fear of wants. This means ensuring basic human needs of all people .

Dr. Manoj Kumar

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OtherOpenAlex11 Jun 2019

Child Labour: A Curse on Humanity

Child labour especially persuasive problem throughout the world.It's a social problem of greater magnitude than other related problems.The burden of work may become too great while its educational and social role can become a threat to their health and development.it is a complex problem whose roots are deeply embedded in cultural, social, economic, structure and tradition .todaychild has been defined differently by different agencies.1 It is exploitation of a children as they receive low wages and work for long hours under condition that are likely to damage their health As well as physical and mental development.In ancient period slaves of tender age were on for doing low work.And in medieval it was quit rampant and rulers encouraged it with an intention to make only traffic in child slaves.This paper identify to introduction of child labour before independence, after independence, introduction, definition, cases, effects includes.

Meenu Bala, Dr. Geetika Sood

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Peer-reviewed articleOpenAlex11 Feb 2019

Governance apathy and Social Hazards: A Case Study of Child Labour in Handloom Industry: INTRODUCTION , The possibility in this study, Defining Child Labour, Reasons for sustaining child labour, Sketching Child Labour in World Map, Indian Scenario, Who are the Child Labourers?, Indian Legislation for children from exploitation in Child labour, The Policy Framework for Child Labour, Concluding words

India is currently witnessing large number of child labour, unfortunately nothing concrete has been done except legal conventions. It continues to be one of the major social issues confronting India with more than 100 million children engaged in various activities. On the part of governance of governments has been moreover filled with apathy. The policy lapses surmounting social hazards consequently large number of our future generation would be lost without making any contributions to the state’s development rather they will be lost nowhere. Due to various research and documentation on the scale and intensity of the problem and particularly commendable work of NGOs, research institutions and academia to an extent, the issue has been on and off in the public domain and kept alive in the minds of the civilized society. The deep rooted structure of Indian society has perpetuated the continuity of child labour and huge of them into hazardous industry. The capitalist system of production provided best avenues to the labour but suited to the industry aimed at surplus and more surpluses. The Nobel Prize given to person worked towards the elimination of child labour is a witness the cruel reality to the rich and unequal society. The hazards to the innocent life of children are one of the fundamental crimes against humanity but in reality it exists in all forms. This paper derives the research base of in the handloom industry in India and how the government’s apathy has deepened the magnitude of the child labour. The present study is primarily based on a study conducted on the larger issue of child labour in handloom sector in the state of Uttar Pradesh. My understanding does count the major role of certain factors for the continuous existence of this cruel reality. The seriousness of the responsible factor remains to be poverty for its high incidence, prevalence and perpetuation of child labour. So the same reason remains with handloom industry in India. It tries to bring the myriad form of problems associated for the existence of child labour and how the children at a very tender age gets deprived from the basic human rights. This also raises the fundamental questions of preventing the soft population entering into the unending tyranny of exploitation and deprivation and continues to live in the process of exclusion.

Dr Md Afroz, K M Ziyauddin

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OtherOpenAlex1 Feb 2019

Prohibition of Child Labour in India: Addressing the global issue of child labour with a focus on India

Child work alludes to the work of children in any work that denies children of their childhood, meddles with their capacity to go to ordinary school, and that is mentally, physically, socially or ethically risky and harmful. Of an expected 215 child workers around the world roughly 114 million (53) are in Asia and the Pacific 14 million (7) live in Latin America and 65 million (30) live in sub-Saharan Africa. Worldwide number of children in child work has declined by 33 since 2000, from 246 million to 168 million children. The greater part of them, 85 million, are in perilous work (down from 171 million of every 2000). The main aim of this paper is to prohibition of child laour in India. Asia and the Pacific still has the largest numbers (almost 78 million or 9.3 of child population), but Sub-Saharan Africa continues to be the region with the highest incidence of child labour (59 million, over 21).There are 13 million (8.8) of children in child labour in Latin America and the Caribbean and in the Middle East and North Africa there are 9.2 million (8.4).Agriculture remains by far the most important sector where child labourers can be found (98 million, or 59), but the problems are not negligible in services (54 million) and industry (12 million) – mostly in the informal economy. Child labour among girls fell by 40 since 2000, compared to 25for boys.

Kiran . Kiran .

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CHILD LABOUR : A SOCIOLOGICAL STUDY

Child Labour: A Curse on Humanity

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