Child Labour in India central question: To what extent are the indigent people in India dependent on child labour? Child labour (in general): The term is used for illegal constant employment of children beneath the age defined by law. For most countries including India this limit is set to the age of 14. "Child labor" is work for children that harms and exploits them in a physical‚ mental and moral way. They work under conditions that are considered illegal‚ hazardous‚ and extremely unequal
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Child Labour Child Labour in the Industrial Revolution was the employment of children as workers for textile industries‚ mining industries‚ milling industries and many more. In 1788‚ more than 60% of the workforce were children employed in textile factories. Children aged as young as 5 or 6 would work for more than 12 hours a day‚ for 6 days a week. Families sent their children to work in factories‚ mills and mines because they needed the money. The average working class child in the period 1791-1850
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Poverty in the Victorian Era. Child Labour During the Industrial Revolution‚ children as young as four were employed in production factories with dangerous‚ and often fatal‚ working conditions. Based on this understanding of the use of children as laborers‚ it is now considered by wealthy countries to be a human rights violation‚ and is outlawed‚ while some poorer countries may allow or tolerate child labour. Child labour can also be defined as the full-time employment of children who are under
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ETHIC AND SOCIETY CHILD LABOUR Name: Tammy (Nhan) Mai Instructor: Chris Barrett Date: December 7‚ 2010 Introduction According to internationally accepted rules‚ regulations‚ laws‚ morality‚ and ethics‚ child labour is unacceptable‚ and child labour should be not legalized. This paper records the results of research on child labour issues in newly industrialized nations and third-world countries‚ and discusses how companies currently make use of child labour. Child labour is unacceptable because
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barely enough money to sustain the family and often is unsafe. It happens in countries around the world‚ including the USA and China that have that problem. Child Labor is not a common thought ‚but it’s still done. You may not think about it ‚but kids are beaten‚ bruised‚ and sometimes even killed from child labor. A common danger of child labor is sewing. The US used to make almost all their clothes‚ but then the major companies moved overseas letting the USA be free to start to save money and
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Child labour in India Of 12.6 million children in hazardous occupations‚ India has the highest number of labourers in the world under 14 years of age.[1] Although the Constitution of India guarantees free and compulsory education to children between the age of 6 to 14 and prohibits employment of children younger than 14 in any hazardous environment‚ child labour is present in almost all sectors of the Indian economy[2] Companies including Gap‚[3] Primark‚[4] Monsanto[5] etc have been criticised
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(Published in International Journal of Technical Cooperation‚ 4 (1)‚ Summer‚ 1998) CHILD LABOUR IN BANGLADESH Nasim Banu‚ Shahjahan Bhuiyan‚ Islamic University‚ Kushtia and Smita Sabhlok‚ University of Southern California In an increasingly integrated world‚ people feel more intimately connected with communities and processes in distant lands. Today the world seems to have high expectations and aspirations for its children‚ certainly higher than seeing them break bricks or straining their
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Child labour is a major problem in India. It is a great challenge that the country is facing. The prevalence of it is evident by the child work participation rates which are higher in India than in other developing countries. Estimates cite figures of child labour between 60 and 115 million working children in India‚ the highest number in the world (Human Rights Watch‚ 1996). It is basically rooted in poverty. It is poverty that forces a child to earn money to support his family. Though it is prevalent
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Child labour From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia The first general laws against child labour‚ the Factory Acts‚ were passed in Britain in the first half of the 19th century. Children younger than nine were not allowed to work and the work day of youth under the age of 18 was limited to twelve hours.[1] Child labour refers to the employment of children at regular and sustained labour. This practice is considered exploitative by many international organizations and is illegal in many countries
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I. INTRODUCTION In a developing country like the Philippines‚ the child labor phenomenon remains widespread. Today‚ we find hundreds of thousands of Filipino children being deprived of the oppurtunity to share in the prospects of development. The door of the opportunity is close on them simply because their “childhood is wasted in premature work (ILD 1994) rather than nurtured in school and at play. And doubtedly‚ many stand witnesses to this bleak scenario in the workforce. How the lives of this
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