Causes of Child Labour and Its Impact on The Life of Children: Case Study of Hyderabad, Sindh, Pakistan
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Causes of child labor, impact on children’s life, District Hyderabad, Sindh, PakistanAbstract
This paper examines the main causes of child labor. Total sample size is sixty children working in different categories of work have been selected for this study. All the respondents were male and having age 08 – 16 years. The result of this study reveals that 35% respondents working at hotel/tea stalls, 25% working at General Store, 15% working at Auto workshops/Garage, 15% working as a Photo Stat Worker and 10% working at Juice Corners. child labour is an ongoing, increasing, extravagant, demoralized, and large occurrence which destroys kids fully as emotionally, socially, physically and psychologically child labours present in all societies, in developed, developing and underdeveloped countries. This study is designed to discover the reasons of child labour and its effects on child’s life. Both qualitative and quantitative techniques have been used as a research design. This study explores that poverty, low earnings of family, death of parents is the main cause of child’s labor. They also work more hours on small wages/remuneration. Mostly children aren’t happy with their jobs and wages.
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