Child labour and Urban informal sector / by B.K. Sharma and Viswa Mittar

The study highlights the significant role that the urban informal sector has come to play in providing employment to child labour in a developing economy. It is a neglected area of research and furnishes the policy-maker with a micro-analogue of the pattern and composition of deployment of child labour in the country's rapidly changing urban environment. The socio-economic structure, the family base, the level of income and employment, the occupa tional mobility and the contribution of child labour towards family income are some of the more important aspects analysed here. The policy recommendations are directed, in the main, towards improvement of child labour which is all too frequently neglected by the formal sector institutions and alleviation of. poverty which gives rise to the phenomenon of child labour.

The study will be of use to students of economics, management and commerce as also to those who are concerned with urbanism and social work.