Child and the state in India : child labour and education policy in comparative perspective (Record no. 167001)

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Classification number 331.31 WEI
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Personal name Weiner, Myron.
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Title Child and the state in India : child labour and education policy in comparative perspective
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. Delhi
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Oxford University Press
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Date of publication, distribution, etc. 1992
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Extent 213 p.
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Summary, etc. India has the largest number of non-schoolgoing working children in the world. Why has the government not removed them from the labour force and required that they attend school, as have the governments of all developed and many developing countries? To answer this question, this major comparative study first looks at why and when other states have intervened to protect children against parents and employers. By examining Europe in the nineteenth century, the United States, Japan, and a number of developing countries, Weiner rejects the argument that children were removed from the labour force only when the incomes of the poor rose and employers needed a more skilled labour force.<br/><br/>Turning to India, the author shows that its policies arise from fundamental beliefs, embedded in the culture, rather than from economic conditions. Identifying the specific values that elsewhere led educators, social activists, religious leaders, trade-unionists, military officers, and government bureaucrats to make education compulsory and to end child labour, he explains why similar groups in India do not play the same role.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Children employment
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