Contents: Preface. 1. Child labour in India : myth and reality. 2. Working conditions, wages and earnings of working children. 3. Child labour laws. 4. Supreme court judgements on child labour. 5. Conclusions and suggestions. Appendices: 1. NGO efforts in programming for working and street children. 2. Child labour in carpet industry. 3. High concentration of child labour. 4. Sparing a thought for the slum children on Diwali. 5. Child labour problems need people's movement. Index.

"The first chapter of this study is devoted to present a vivid picture of the problem in India. Second chapter deals with working conditions of child labour in Delhi covering working children in six vocations: tea stalls, dhabas, automobile work-shops, domestic child workers, other three of self-employed: shoe-shining, rag picking, evening newspaper hawkers. Also the chapter covers the wages and earnings of the child labour. The review of child labour legislation has been made in chapter three. Chapter four is related to some selected Supreme Court judgements regarding child labour. The fifth chapter is meant for findings and suggestions to eradicate child labour." (jacket)

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