Volume 8 : Issue 4 (2021)

Troubles and Outlook of Child Labor

Child labor is a global issue that prevents children from fulfilling their potential. Child labor is a violation of children's rights - the work can harm them mentally or physically, expose them to hazardous situations or stop them from going to school. Not all work done by children is classed as child labour.Children under the age of fourteen is called as child. The main conditions in which children are work are purely unregulated and mostly they work without food, and with lowest wages. The child labor prohibition and regulation act 1986 prohibits the work of children those who are working in the places where certain processes are undertaken. For the purpose of collecting data from the child laborers’, the researcher has prepared an Interview Schedule and has administered the same among fifty child labors of Kovilpatti region through random sampling. The present study aims to explore the reasons underlying the children to take up the job. The result reveals that the children have come from different family background, work experiences and situations. The factor analysis applied to bring out the problems for child labor reveals that it is the depression, drug dependency which leads to worse or crime and mental disorder. Though there are number of Laws and Acts enacted to control and to eradicate the child labour, there are children who need to work for their livelihood and to look after the families.

Child Labor, Livelihood, NGO’s, Poverty, Problems,

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