The Third World cities have been reinvented by the forces of
globalization as the destinations of new investments, causing the
migration of a teeming million to the major urban centers without
any corresponding increase in the creation of new jobs and other
basic amenities required for decent living. The problem of child
labor has also been exacerbated to an unprecedented level in the
urban areas of the Third World countries during this period. Yet
the dominant discourses on this problem have come from the Western
observers or have some prior Western presence in its understanding
of the problem, which defers the Third Worldly understanding of the
situation. The author argues that a paradigm shift is needed to
incorporate various local discourses in order to effectively
address the problem of child labor. Based on a decade of fieldwork
among the poor and marginalized population in the city of Kolkata,
Child Labor and the Urban Third World will give readers an idea of
how this problem has become inextricably bound with various other
local conditions, such as the security of tenure in the houses.
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