Born to Work: Child Labour in India
by Burra, Neera
This book is based on first-hand field investigation carried out in brassware, gem polishing, lock-making and glass factories. Utilizing data collected under adverse and even hostile conditions, in defiance of the Mafia-like organizations that shield industries exploiting child labour from the gaze of the outside world, Neera Burra, describes the working conditions of these children. It emerges that a large number of children, as young as five or six years of age, word through the night under h…
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- Full title :Born to Work : Child Labour in India.
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This book is based on first-hand field investigation carried out in brassware, gem polishing, lock-making and glass factories. Utilizing data collected under adverse and even hostile conditions, in defiance of the Mafia-like organizations that shield industries exploiting child labour from the gaze of the outside world, Neera Burra, describes the working conditions of these children. It emerges that a large number of children, as young as five or six years of age, word through the night under health and safety hazards. Workplace trauma which stunts the growth of these children both physically and mentally, is identified and discussed.
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- Publication Date:1998.
- Edition:2. oplag
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- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:Oxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1998.
The Physical Object
- Description:285 sider
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0195640977, 9780195640977
- oclc:ocn768735203
Table of Contents
Indhold: Foreword by Myron Weiner -- Acknowledgements -- Glossery -- Child Labour in Some Sectors in India -- 1. How it all started ... Government Policy and the Law -- 2. Where are Children Working? 3. Children in the Glass Industry -- 4. Child Labour in the Lock Industry of Aligarh -- 5. The Child Potters of Khurja -- 7. Why Children Work in the Bras Ware Industry -- 8. Traditional Crafts and Child Labour -- 9. The Female Child -- 10. Consequences of Child Labour: Education and Health -- 11. What can be done ... Bibliography -- Index -- Photographs following page 150.
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