Industries Using Child Labor

Waste picking does seem to be an easy task, but there are considerable problems and issues involved with this type of child labor. The chemical and medicine wastes have a certain life span after which they become poisonous and touching them can leave those poisonous materials on the hands, which can enter the body while eating. Moreover, there are contaminated injections or needles that are dumped and they can also be lethal if exposed to the body by mistake. All these issues of health, nourishment, and behavior of children are proportional to the practice of child labor in those countries, which is a rising issue in contemporary times.

There are many organizations working for children’s education and health in rural areas, to raise the quality of standards of unprivileged families and reduce the rate of child labor. However, in the present scenario, child labor stands as a massive problem that cannot be solved by the efforts of NGOs alone.

The government in this respect has been ignorant and sluggish in pondering the issue of child labor and finding remedies for it. This explains the reason why this issue still exists in many underdeveloped countries, even after several types of research and census since governments are least focused on developing the rural population.

Child Labor

Problems identified in this research are the health and psychological issues involved in child labor and the causes of the growing rate of child labor in the world.

A comparative study is done for three counties, which have a high rate of child labor, to understand what factors lead to engaging children in labor work and why these factors have not been eradicated from the face of such countries. It has been observed that the industrial growth in urban cities has increased the trend of child migration to the city areas for the sake of employment.

This shows the darker side of the industrial expansion in the world, and it can be considered as fuel to child labor work. The study will focus on the child labor problem in India in particular as its huge population creates high scope for children’s engagement in labor work.

The comparative study of three international countries, other than India, will be used to research the present condition of the Indian labor market. Also, the policies and changes that have been applied to the labor association recently as will be identified, which have caused an increase or decrease in the child labor rate in India.