Child Labor In India

The problem of child labor has become an ever-increasing concern among many nations. Many of the worst child labor offenses take place in Third World countries. Throughout these nations, children are being forced to work long hours in terrible conditions for little or no money. To fully understand child labor, one needs to address the reasons for supporting and opposing child labor, its effect on underdeveloped countries’ economies and the child laborers, and what is being done to combat child labor.

Child labor is the use of children in industry or business, that can deprive them from their childhood, keep them away from attending school, and that is mentally, physically, socially or morally dangerous and harmful. This practice have numerous occurrences all through history and is one of the worst forms of child exploitation, particularly, with during the industrial revolution. Over the years it has grown to become one of the many serious social issues around the world. According to statistics provided by UNICEF, there are an estimated 250 million children aged 5 to 14 years employed in child labor worldwide and this figure is continuously increasing. Even with the standardized federal labor laws in effect in 1938 not a lot has changed. Child labor not only causes damage to a child’s physical and mental health but also keep him deprive them from their basic rights to education, childhood, and freedom. Child labor has very bad effects on the society that can result to consequences that can exploit the future generation.

Child labor is the working of young adults slaving away for low payment. Since old times, adolescents have worked to support their household, especially the families that live on a farm. Most children worked to help bring in money because their parents didn’t have jobs.The young children were forced to slave away long hours in risky and unsanitary conditions, with their pay extremely

Child labor is a serious act and surpasses internationally. In the US, employers who violate child labor laws are subject to high fines for each child. In India, the Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act prohibits the engagement of children below the age of 14 years in certain employments and regulates the conditions of work of children in certain place of employments (Delhi Labour Department, 2014). Noncompliance with the employment of any child or permits any child in the occupations, in which employment is prohibited will be sentenced to prison up to one year and/or receive a fine no less than 10,000 Rupees (162.00 USD).

India alone is receiving $40 million this year to reach 80,000 working children (CQ Researcher 2010). While ILO enacted the 1999 Worst Forms of Child Labor Convention which restricts all full-time work and any work by children under 12, children in developing countries aren’t attending school on a daily basis. They are forced to work hazardous jobs at young ages and endure debilitating abuse.

International economic trends have also increased the amount of child labor in poor, developing countries. “Debt, bloated military budgets and structural adjustment programs imposed by the International

The social studies text, child labor around the world, by Nelda Marquez discusses child labor around the world. The social studies text describes how children are forced to work instead of going to school.

Conflict and poverty are all too common in the country of South Sudan, along with one of the more overlooked issues of Child Labor. South Sudan is a country with some of the highest rates of child labor. The country has made progress in making laws and regulations, organizations and agencies and social programs that target child labor. The problem is that these developments are not effective in reducing the child labor in South Sudan. It is important to understand what the Sudanese government is doing that isn’t working and why it isn’t working in order to reduce child labor significantly in this country.

Child Labor by definition is employment in which harms children, deprives of their childhood and youth, interferes in their ability to gain a proper education, harmful, morally dangerous and has mental and physical ramifications. Many American’s called child labor “child slavery”, not only did it deprive children of an education but it also robbed them of a proper education and condemned them to illiteracy in their future.

Child labor is work for children, but also harmful to their growth physically, mentally or emotionally. Children were forced to work because of their family’s extremely poor condition where they may be needed to drop out of school. In most kinds of

It is undeniable that some children work in circumstances that are highly exploitative and detrimental to their well-being. Most economists, policymakers, and even laypersons throughout much of world will agree that swift policy is necessary to minimize the suffering of these children. Although there are moral considerations in the most deplorable of these scenarios, many instances of child labor fall outside the purview of this narrow conception. A large portion of child labor is characterized by children working limited hours in conditions dictated by parents or other family members. Although these circumstances are not universally better, it seems reasonable to expect that parents would protect their children to some extent—especially considering maximizing rates of return on their investments to the child. Child labor, thus, must be considered not as undoubtedly negative, but as a morally neutral necessity in some developing countries. Nonetheless, we must consider that there is indeed a toll that is not just physical but also psychological for these children; even at the

Poverty is the main reason for child labour. Poor households need the money, which their children can earn. Children contribute to 20 – 25 % of family income. It is obvious that the survival of certain families depends on the children’s earnings.

If India made slavery and child labor in India completely illegal, there would be fewer child laborers and slaves working for people. UNICEF, or the United Nations Children's Fund is an organization that works to provide humanitarian assistance to children in developing countries. In an article that they wrote about Child Labor in India, they said: “There were more than 10.2 million ‘economically active’ children in the age group of five to 14 years – 5.6 million boys and 4.5 million girls” (Child Labor in India). According to Manu Balachandran of Quartz Media “Asia, the most populous region in the world has an estimated two-thirds of the total number of people in modern slavery” and “About 1.4% of Indians currently live as modern slaves” (Balachandran). This shows that there are millions of children under the age of 15 working for people illegally using their labor to help them, and 1.4% people in India

    War, unbalanced international trade, and natural disasters are but few among many of the root causes of poverty. With poverty comes the undeniable consequence of child labor. Today, millions of children around the world work in agriculture, fishing, manufacturing, mining, and domestic service. Child labor exists in all parts of the world, with 114 million in Asia and the Pacific, 14 million in Latin America, and 65 million in Sub-Saharan Africa. Poverty is primary cause of child labor, as families that are too poor need extra hands to work for their daily supply of food. If quality education could be provided for free in all parts of the world, this problem could potentially be eradicated.

After placing their entire existence in peril, by giving up educational rights, risking their health, and losing their childhood these child earn as little as 0.35cents a day. Mikhail Bakunin once said that "Children do not constitute anyones property: they are neither the property of their parents, nor of the society. They belong only to their own future freedom." Unfortunately for the children of India they will forever be slaves to these rock mines or sewing industries. This is all they know. They have been deprived for so long of education, health and their own childhood that they forgot about their own future freedom like Mikhail Bakunin says. Child labor in India should be called child murder, murder of the child’s childhood, murder of the child’s health and most importantly murder of the child’s