Child Labour and Education/M. Lakshmi Narasaiah. New Delhi, Discovery
Pub., 2006, x, 164 p., ISBN 81-8356-064-4.
Child Labour and Education/M. Lakshmi Narasaiah. New Delhi, Discovery
Pub., 2006, x, 164 p., ISBN 81-8356-064-4.
Contents: Preface. 1. Stop child labour. 2. Child labour in weaving industry. 3. Child labour: targeting the intolerable. 4. Children's health and the environment. 5. Helping your child learn. 6. For a broader approach to education. 7. Population growth and education. 8. Will education go to market?. 9. Private education: the poor's best chance?. 10. Corporate ambitions in education. 11. Promotion of higher education in research. 12. Wanted: an new deal for the universities. 13. Wiring up the Ivory towers. 14. Shaking the Ivory tower. 15. Solving the unemployment problem by looking beyond the job. 16. Population growth and jobs. 17. Beyond economics. 18. Violence in school: a world wide affair. 19. Rural poverty in India. 20. Employment and poverty alleviation. 21. Women and poverty. 22. Towards a new policy on poverty reduction. 23. Technological entrepreneurship: the new force for economic growth. 24. Population growth and income. 25. What was wrong with structural adjustment: in defence of a much-Maligned strategy. 26. Can economic growth reduce poverty? New findings on inequality, economic growth and poverty. 27. Democracy and poverty: are they interlinked?. 28. Unemployment in the poor and rich worlds: different causes, but converging policies?. 29. Corruption: where to draw the line?. 30. Social Summit. 31. Trade and labour standards: using the wrong instruments for the right cause. 32. Employment and promoting ecology: how a service culture could put people back to work. Bibliography. Index.
"We all know that child labour is one of the faces of poverty and that many efforts over many years will be required to eliminate it completely. But, there are some forms of child labour today which are intolerable by any standard. These deserve to be identified, exposed and eradicated without further delay.
The problem of child labour is so enormous and the need for action is urgent, choice must be made about where to concentrate available human and material resources. The most humane strategy must therefore be to focus scarce resources first on the most intolerable forms of child labour such as slavery, debt bondage child prostitution, work in hazardous occupations and industries, and the very young, especially girls.
In addition, a comparative study carried out over a period of 17 years in India on both children who attend school and children who instead work in agriculture, industry or the service sector showed that working children grow up shorter and weigh less than school children.
In Bombay, that health of children working in hotels, restaurants, construction and elsewhere was found to be considerable inferior to that of a control group of non-working school children. Working children exhibited symptoms of constant muscular, chest and abdominal pain, headaches, dizziness, respiratory infections, diarrhoea and worm infection." (jacket)