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Child labour in India : globalizaion, power, and the politics of international children's rights / Gurchathen S. Sanghera.
LIBRA HD6250.I42 S26 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sanghera, Gurchatten S., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Child labor--India.
- Child labor.
- Children.
- Social conditions.
- India.
- Children--India--Social conditions.
- Children's rights--India.
- Children's rights.
- Children--Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 326 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- "India has the largest number of child labourers in the world, and has been the subject of intense media and political campaigns in the North aimed at addressing the abuse of children's rights. This book ... reveals how the rights discourse has been used by international actors, national elites, and local [NGOs] in the child labour debate in India ..." Dust jacket.
- Contents:
- The politics of human rights
- International Children's Rights Law and child labour
- Situating human rights within the context of globalization
- Globalization and India : the inner landscape
- NGO, children's rights, and child labor in India : a struggle on two fronts.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-317) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199466801
- 0199466807
- OCLC:
- 962304690
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