SUBJECT: SOCIOLOGY

UNIT: VII
TOPIC: CHILD LABOR
HOURS: 1
B.Sc. Nursing II YEAR

Submitted By
Mr. Rahul Meena
Lecturer
Community Health Nursing
Chirayu College of Nursing, Bhopal
 Objectives
At the end of the class students will be able to:
1. Introduce the Child Labor
2. Define the Child Labor
3. Explain the aims and scopes of Child Labor
4. Explain the Child Labor persists
5. Describe the forms of Child Labor
6. Enumerate the prevention and elimination
on Child Labor
7. Explain the recommendation
CHILD LABOR
 AIM
To know the reasons behind child labor and
how it affects society, present situation of child
labor in Bangladesh, measures available to stop
it, and other related issues.
 Scope
Who is Child ? What is Child Labor ?

Why Child Labor persists ?

What are the forms of Child Labor ?

Distribution of Child Labor depending on

geography, culture, gender.

Child Labor condition in Bangladesh.

How can we eliminate and prevent Child

Labor ?

Recommendation and Conclusion.

 Who is a child ?

United Nations International Children's

Emergency Fund (UNICEF) defines "child"
as Anyone below the age of 18.
 CHILD LABOR
"Child labor" is, work by children that harms them
in some way (physically, mentally, morally, or by
blocking access to education)

According UNICEF
“Child labor is work that
exceeds
a minimum number of hours,
depending on the age of a child and
on the type of work. Such work is
considered harmful to the child and
should therefore be eliminated.”
The International Labor Organization (ILO)

Defines Child Labor As:

 When a child is
working during early age.

 He overworks or gives
over time to Labor.

 He works due to the socially, and

psychologically, materialistic pressure.

 He becomes ready to Labor on a very low pay.

  Does all work cause harm to
children?

 Any type of work done by children

should be called Child Labor ?

‘NO’
A child harvesting coffee beans in Honduras, on
December 2010.
Brothers looking after the grocery shop in
temporary absence of their father.
 Why Child Labor persists ?

Poverty is the greatest single cause behind child labor.

Other Causes include :

 Illiteracy
 Lack of knowledge regarding children’s health and
rights
 Broken family/orphan child
 Unemployment of adult family members
 Early marriage
 Lack of educational facilities
 Certain cultural beliefs.
What are the forms of Child Labor ?
There are many common to rare, but for better
understanding, we can broadly categorize child
Labor as
:
a. Away from home/families
Factories, mining, hotel boy, bus

helper
b. Agriculture
Harvesting, farming
c. Household
cooking, Sewing, cleaning
d. Others
Child working in a brick field to earn livelihood.
A 13 years old boy working with other adult workers
in a coal mine.
A 10 years old girl in
circus show. Now a days
this are rare.

A Child working as
waste collector for
the city Corporation
of Dhaka.
Children working in local Cigarette factory.
Distribution of Child Labor varies greatly
depending on :

 Geography
 Culture and Religion
 Gender
 Economic condition etc.
Child Labor index 2014 (Maplecroft)
 Few works involves male child,
such as mining, bus helper,
metal and dye factory, tannery,
garage.

On the other hand, female child

commonly works as housemaid,
garments factory and child
prostitution.
Shaheen, a 10yrs old boy working in an aluminum factory in
Dhaka, Bangladesh, on November, 2009
A young boy cleans parts of a vehicle, 2015.
Female child working as a housemaid is very common in
Bangladesh
Girls just after reaching puberty or even before that age
are often engaged in child prostitution.
 Working
child

Poverty Poor health

Poverty &
child
labor

Unsafe home
Lack of
environment
education

Complex relation of Child labor and poverty and

other issues.
Child
carrying
heavy load

A boy using
wielding machine
without protection.
A boy working as a Helper on a running vehicle which
moves from Farmgate to Dhaka Cantonment area.
Unhygienic
working and
living condition
invariably leads
to poor health
and low
productivity.
Some becomes crippled for
lifetime, and many of them
develops depression , anxiety
or mental trauma.
 HOW CAN WE ELIMINATE AND
PREVENT CHILD LABOR ?

Things that can be done :

 Policy makers of the Government have to take
the issue seriously, and eradicate poverty and
illiteracy.

 Employees would not involve a child for any

work which might deny the child of a normal
childhood.

 Various Plans for child welfare and Laws against

RECOMMENDATION

 We must have empathy. We

have to consider the problem
as our own.


Every citizen should be aware
of own responsibilities and
should take corrective
measures.
 it is essentially a socio-
economic problem that
poses a great challenge
towards the development
of the nation.

 It is extensively linked to
poverty and illiteracy
along with other facts,
requires great effort from
all class of the society to
make a real change.
Government along can
not solve the problem.
 Teacher References
 SHARMA PREM (SECOND EDITION, 2019). INTRODUCTION

TO SOCIOLOGY FOR B.SC. NURSING STUDENTS;

JALANDHAR PUNJAB: LOTUS PUBLISHERS.
 CLEMENT A LAN (FIRST EDITION). A TEXTBOOK OF

“SOCIOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS IN NURSING”.

HYDERABAD: JAYPEE BROTHERS MEDICAL PUBLISHERS
(P) LTD.
 ANTHIKAD JACOB (SECOND EDITION, 2014). SOCIOLOGY

FOR GRADUATE NURSES. NEW DELHI: JAYPEE BROTHERS

MEDICAL PUBLISHERS (P) LTD
 Student References
 SHARMA PREM (SECOND EDITION, 2019).
INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY FOR B.SC.
NURSING STUDENTS; JALANDHAR PUNJAB:
LOTUS PUBLISHERS.
 CLEMENT A LAN (FIRST EDITION). A
TEXTBOOK OF “SOCIOLOGICAL
IMPLICATIONS IN NURSING”. HYDERABAD:
JAYPEE BROTHERS MEDICAL PUBLISHERS (P)
LTD.
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