Although the internationally recommended minimum age for work is 15 years and the number of child workers under the age of 10 is far from negligible, almost all the data available on child labour concerns the 10-to-14 age group.
Traditionally, the protection of working children has been much higher in rural than in urban areas-nine out of ten are engaged in agricultural or related activities. In the towns and cities of India where child labour has increased steadly as a result on the rapid urbanization of recent years, working children are found mainly in trade and service, and to a lesser extent in the manufacturing section.
About Author :
Dr. M. Lakshmi Narasaiah Has been working as a Professor of Economics, and Special Officer Sri Kirshnadevaraya University Post-Graduate in Economics and has secured first rank. He has received Ph.D., Degree from Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Anantapur, in 1987. He has worked as U.G.C. JRF and UGC SRF.
Starting his professional career as an Assistant Professor of Economics in Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Anantapur, he has been actively engaged in teaching and research fro the past twenty-one years. He was associated with the Government of Andhra Pradehs, planning Department in their Centre for planning and Development Studies Projects.
Contents :
Child Labour: Targeting the Intolerable
Stop Child Labour!
Child Labour in Weaving Industry
Violence in School: A World Wide Affair
Helping Your Child Learn
Children's Health and the Environment
Population Growth and Jobs
Solving the Unemployment Problem by Looking Beyond the Job
Trade and Labour Standards: Using the Wrong Instruments for the Right Cause
Employment and Promoting Ecology: How a Service Culture Could Put People Back to Work
Towards Heatlhy Cities
Health Care Relief in Conflict Situations: What Can we Learn from the Food Relief Experience?
The Environment, the Economy and Public Health: An Integrated View
Why Don't We Stop Tuberculosis?
Climate Change and Human Health
Popualtion Growth and Climate Change
Taking Poverty to Heart: Non-communicable Diseases and the Poor
Social Development: The Way Forward
Resistance to Change: The Way Forward
Resistance to Change: Why Poverty Reduction Programmes Did Not Work
Tapping the Market: Can Private Enterprise Supply Water to the Poor?
Aid Effectiveness as a Multi-level Process
Safe Motherhood is a Human Rights Issues
What is Known about Reducing: Maternal Mortality?
Action for Safe Motherhood
The Dematerialisation of the World Economy
Pollution for Export
Challenging Traditional Economic Growth
Rural Poverty in India
Food First
A New World Order for Whom?
Safety First!
The Population Challenge
Literacy Gaining Too Slowly
Aids and the Responsibility of the Media
Development: The People Know Best
Social Summit
Bibliography
Index