Child labour in India : globalization, power, and the politics of international children's rights / Gurchathen S. Sanghera.
India has the largest number of child labourers in the world, and has been the subject of intense media and political campaigns in the North aimed at addressing the abuse of children's rights. This book explores these rights as a site of power and reveals how the rights discourse has been used...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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New Delhi :
Oxford University Press,
[2016]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: | Oxford Scholarship Online |
| Summary: | India has the largest number of child labourers in the world, and has been the subject of intense media and political campaigns in the North aimed at addressing the abuse of children's rights. This book explores these rights as a site of power and reveals how the rights discourse has been used by international actors, national elites and local NGOs in the child labour debate in India. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 327 pages) |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0199087091 9780199087099 |