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Child Labour in a Third World Urban Situation is based on author’s decade-long fieldwork in Kolkata and contains ethnographic details on the child labour situation in Kolkata. The study was done in the backdrop of globalisation in India which made huge proportion of population marginalised during the last two decades. This work revealed that a strong correlation could be found between the child labour problem and marginalisation of population in the urban areas in the Third World. The readers will find this book useful in understanding child labour problem prevailing in the Third World urban areas. The subject matter of the book is divided into three detailed chapters. The first two chapters provide a discussion on the concept and the magnitude of child labour in the Third World. Third chapter is further divided into nine sections to give focused study on various aspects of child labour, including educational and economic aspects of child labourers, description of the key behaviours and statistical analyses of the marginalisation of population and child labour. It also gives ideas on how a Third Worldly understanding on this problem can emerge which is essential for properly comprehending the problem of child labour. The last section of the book is comprised of valuable data on the subject in the form of Tables. Bibliography, Appendix and Index further enrich the book. The book will ably serve the needs of students, teachers and researchers of Sociology, particularly child labour and related issues. About the Author Subrata Sankar Bagchi has been teaching Anthropology in a college in Kolkata for the last 14 years. He has also served as a visiting professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Ottawa in 2008-09. He got his Ph.D. in Anthropology in 2006 from the University of Calcutta. His research life spanned over 18 years and during this period he worked extensively on various topics like research methodology, urban ethnicity, urban social movement, urban poverty, etc. He has published several scholarly articles in different national and international journals. His recently edited book Expanding Horizons of Human Rights is widely read and referred by the scholars in various fields. Table of Contents Preface List of Tables List of Plates 1. Introduction 2. Child Labour in the Third World 3. Design, Results and Analyses 4. Child Labour in a Third World Urban Situation: Towards a Conclusion Bibliography Appendix