Out of School and (Probably) in Work: Child Labour and Capability Deprivation in India

Subramanian S () and D. Jayaraj

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Abstract: This paper explores the hypothesis that the phenomenon of child labour is explicable in terms of poverty that compels a household to keep its children out of school and put them to work in the cause of the household’s survival. In exploring the link between child labour and poverty in the Indian context, the paper advances the view that the nature of the connection is more readily apprehended if both the variables under study are defined more expansively and inclusively than is customarily the case. [Research Paper No. 2005/55]

Keywords: child labour; generalized deprivation; poverty; ‘school-less-ness’; survival axiom (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-12
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