Child Labor and the Urban Third World: Toward a New Understanding of the Problem

Subrata Sankar Bagchi

doi:10.5771/9780761852995

Summary

The Third World cities have been reinvented by the forces of globalization as the destinations of new investments, causing the migration of a teeming million to the major urban centers without any corresponding increase in the creation of new jobs and other basic amenities required for decent living. The problem of child labor has also been exacerbated to an unprecedented level in the urban areas of the Third World countries during this period. Yet the dominant discourses on this problem have come from the Western observers or have some prior Western presence in its understanding of the problem, which defers the Third Worldly understanding of the situation. The author argues that a paradigm shift is needed to incorporate various local discourses in order to effectively address the problem of child labor. Based on a decade of fieldwork among the poor and marginalized population in the city of Kolkata, Child Labor and the Urban Third World will give readers an idea of how this problem has become inextricably bound with various other local conditions, such as the security of tenure in the houses.

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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/2010
Copyright Year: 2010
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7618-5298-8
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7618-5299-5
Publisher: Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 83
Product Type: Monograph

1. Table of Contents No access
2. Preface No access
Chapter 1: Introducing the Work No access Pages 1 - 5
Chapter 2: Concepts of Child Labor: A Critical Review No access Pages 6 - 19
Chapter 3: Toward a New Understanding of Child Labor in the Urban Third World No access Pages 20 - 45
Chapter 4: Tables No access Pages 46 - 54
Chapter 5: Need for a Paradigm Shift No access Pages 55 - 65
Bibliography No access Pages 66 - 78
Appendices No access Pages 79 - 79
Appendix I No access Pages 80 - 80
Appendix II No access Pages 81 - 81
Index No access Pages 82 - 83