Categories Of Child Labour Essay

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Categories of child labor:

Child labor is a term that needs to be unpacked: it cannot be used in a sweeping manner but covers a range and variety of circumstances in which children work.
• Child Labor: Those children who are doing paid or unpaid work in factories, workshops, establishments, mines and in the service sector such as domestic labor. The Ministry of
Labor, Government of India has employed the term ‘child labor’ only in the context of children doing ‘hazardous’ work. By implication, children who are not doing ’hazardous’ work are not considered to be child laborers and are said to be doing child work. The consequence of this narrow definition of child labor is that the Labor Ministry’s definition only includes a very small percentage …show more content…

Direct links between the commercial sexual exploitation of children and other forms of exploitative child labor are numerous. Factories, workshops, street corners, railway stations, bus stops and homes where children work are common sites of sexual exploitation. Children are especially powerless to resist abuse by employers, either as perpetrators or intermediaries. Village loan sharks often act as procurers for city brothels, lending money to the family which must be paid back through the daughter’s work. Almost all such children are betrayed by those they trust and end up with their trust abused. The physical (health, danger of HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases) and psycho-social damage inflicted by commercial sexual exploitation makes it one of the most hazardous forms of child …show more content…

These children are engaged in taking care of younger siblings, cooking, cleaning and other such household activities. As seen in the literature on women’s work, such activities need to be recognized as ‘work’. Further, if such children are not sent to school, they will eventually join the labor force as one of the above categories of child

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