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Write short note with a sociological perspective: Child Labour

  • UPSC 2013
  • 10 marks
  • Industrialization and Urbanisation in India

Child labour is defined not by age alone but by consequence: work that costs a child schooling, health and the chance of a different adulthood. Sociologically it is an index of how a society distributes risk between generations and among castes.

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  • Child work and child labour
  • Magnitude and spread
  • Sociological explanations
  • The gendered invisibility of girls
  • The legal position
  • Conclusion

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