Sisyphean efforts? : state policy and child labour in Karnataka / by Anil Kumar Vaddiraju ; foreword by Professor James Manor, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vaddiraju, Anil Kumar, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child labor--Government policy--India--Karnataka.

Child labor.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 149 pages ) illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Of the four south Indian states, three states, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu have ubiquitous and rampant child labour. Kerala is the only south Indian state to have been declared as child labour-free state. Andhra Pradesh is second only to Uttar Pradesh in the extent of its child labour in the country. Karnataka and Tamil Nadu stand at seventh and tenth place in the list, respectively. This is somewhat surprising in the sense that the south Indian states are historically advanced in human development, womenas agency, demographic indicators and governance. Also, since the onset of economic reforms, they have been growing at an economically rapid rate. Why, then, are societies that have relatively high literacy and health indicators, well developed womenas agency and relatively better governance failing to protect their children from being forced into hard labour? This book examines some of these questions with regards to state policy towards the eradication of child labour in Karnataka. -

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 7, 2013).

ISBN:

1-4438-5325-9

OCLC:

859834471