Child Labourers’ In Chamarajanagar Districts: A Micro Level Study

Children are part and parcel of the economic activity of each and every society. Notwithstanding the fact that child labour is not a new phenomenon and it has existed even in ancient times, its form has been kept changing. Poverty, population explosion, survival strategy of the poor and exploitative economic systems are regarded as the causes of child labour in India. This paper discusses child labour as social issue on the basis of the data from an empirical study conducted in Bangalore, the capital city of Karnataka state in India. The data of the study pertain to the nature of the work done by child labourers, their socioeconomic background (such as age, level of schooling, family size, and parental education and income), earnings and difficulties faced by them as child labourers. The paper paper is based on the ongoing research work in Chamarja nagar dist of Karnataka India