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Accepted Paper:

Child worker and their struggle for survival: another feature of urban poverty  
Raka Bhattacharjee Roy (University of North Bengal) Somenath Bhattacharjee (Assam University)

Paper short abstract:

Poverty has become one of the major social problem in the Indian society. Along with the rapid influx of urbanization, urban poverty is also increasing rapidly. In this context, the children of the concerned families become a worst victim. From their early childhood, they get involved into the mainstream of earning for their families. Ultimately it creates an adverse impact upon their entire socialization process.

Paper long abstract:

Irrespective of multifarious developmental perspective, poverty is still prevailing to a larger extent throughout the entire world and in India it is also quite prevalent. It has emerged as a major social problem, and it generates some other critical social circumstances. Inequal distribution of resources is one of the root cause related with the exploitation and deprivation of a large section of people who are poor and downtrodden. In these societies, poverty, hunger and scarcity become an inseparable aspect ever since the childhood of an individual. Ultimately, their entire socialization process is intimately related with the culture of poverty. For the sake of survival, irrespective of tender childhood emotions, their hands play a crucial role to earn a fold of rice for their family members. Such a situation has been observed in case of an unorganized occupational sector which is discussed in the present study.

Keywords: Urban poor, Child worker, Poverty, Hunger.

Panel PE14
The urban poor and their struggle for survival: search for an alternative in livelihood (IUAES Commission on Urban Anthropology)
  Session 1 Tuesday 6 August, 2013, -