Child Labour: Causes, Effects, and Ways to Stop It

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART-B...........................................................................................................................................3
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6
Books and Journals......................................................................................................................6
Online...........................................................................................................................................6

PART-B
INTRODUCTION
Work that divest children of their childhood, stops them from continuing their education
and is mentally or physically harmful to the child, comes under child labour category. Such
exploitation is not allowed by legislation of whole world. Not all work comes under this
category, child artist or helping in family duties and other such work are considered as
development of child, providing them with skills and be productive members of society when
they turn adult.
MAIN BODY
Economic hardships has its toll on many families, in some it comes with a price of child's
physical and mental safety. What ever the cause is, child labour worsen social inequality and
discrimination (Agarwal, 2017). This problem has existed in the world from ancient history,
many children from age 5 to 14 from poor families worked in agriculture, factories or mining
areas. Some even worked in night shifts for more than 12 hours. With the help of child labour
laws and promotion of schools, child labour cases have fell but not vanished completely.
Causes of child labour: Poverty is the main reason behind child labour. Income from
work done by the child becomes very important for the survival of family. Families rely on
children to have their chance of receiving basic necessities. One the reason for child to work is
because they were not in school. Lack of affordable schools and quality education is factor
responsible for harmful child labour (van Daalen and Hanson, 2019). This whole process is
limiting their future opportunities. In many rural areas schools are either very far or unaffordable
or in some case the quality of education is very poor that parents do not find it worth so they
work because they have nothing else to do, might as well help in family income is what they
think. In some area these laws against child labour are violated. This is usually due to under
funded and under-staffed labour departments and inspection offices.
Some cultural beliefs have accounted for child labour and even encouraged the process,
the tradition is to follow parent's footsteps. This all goes worse for girls they are not given any
formal form of school and they have to do child labour in form of domestic work. Country's
economy also has its fair share leading to child labour. Countries compete for jobs and
industries, this slows the idea of betterment in child labour and encouraging industries or