000			01854nam a22002417a 4500
005			20220630135150.0
008			220630b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d
020			_a0691018987
040			_cAL
041			_aEnglish
082			_223 _a331.340954 _bWEIC
100			_aMyron Weiner _946259
245			_aChild and the State in India: Child Labor and Education Policy in Comparative Perspective
260			_aPrinceton _bPrinceton University Press _c1991
300			_axiv,213 p. _bPB _c23x15.555 cm.
520			_aIndia has the largest number of non-schoolgoing working children in the world. Why has the government not removed them from the labor force and required that they attend school, as have the governments of all developed and many developing countries? To answer this question, this major comparative study first looks at why and when other states have intervened to protect children against parents and employers. By examining Europe of the nineteenth century, the United States, Japan, and a number of developing countries, Myron Weiner rejects the argument that children were removed from the labor force only when the incomes of the poor rose and employers needed a more skilled labor force. Turning to India, the author shows that its policies arise from fundamental beliefs, embedded in the culture, rather than from economic conditions. Identifying the specific values that elsewhere led educators, social activists, religious leaders, trade unionists, military officers, and government bureaucrats to make education compulsory and to end child labor, he explains why similar groups in India do not play the same role.
650			_aIndia _946254
650			_aChild labor--Government policy _946255
650			_aEducation Compulsory _946256
650			_aChildren _946257
700			_aWEINER (Myron) _946258
942			_2ddc _cGF
999			_c223536 _d223536