Vulnerable workers and labour standards (non-)compliance in global production networks: home-based child labour in Delhi’s garment sector

Resmi Bhaskaran, Dev Nathan, Nicola Phillips and C. Upendranadh

Global Development Institute Working Paper Series from GDI, The University of Manchester

Abstract: Abstract Child labour in apparel value chains is not as central a focus of civil society and organized labour movements as it was a decade ago, a tendency that reflects the successes of public and private initiatives in this regard. However while the incidence of child labour has certainly gone down, it still persists in some segments of the industry and in production for international markets. This working paper assesses the nature of child labour in segments of global garment production in and around the National Capital Region (NCR) of Delhi, including Gurgaon and the New Industrial Development Authority (NOIDA). The authors show child labour exists almost entirely in the embroidery and embellishment tasks of garment production, either as part of home work or in household-based enterprises. After presenting the findings of this study, the authors consider various aspects of the child labour debate. Can it be considered a form of apprenticeship? What is the role of poverty and capacity for aspiration? The working paper considers possible options to eliminate child labour, including the role of the new constitutional amendment for universal and compulsory education and a possible conditional cash transfer (CCT) scheme.

Date: 2013
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.capturingthegains.org/pdf/ctg-wp-2013-16.pdf (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 404 Not Found

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bwp:bwppap:ctg-2013-16

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Global Development Institute Working Paper Series from GDI, The University of Manchester Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Rowena Harding ().