UNICEF has classified child work into three categories:
Within the Family
Children are engaged without pay in domestic household tasks, agricultural pastoral work, handicraft/cottage industries etc. Within the Family but outside the Home
Children do agricultural/pastoral work which consists of (seasonal/ full-time) migrant labour, local agricultural work, domestic service, construction work
and informal occupation e.g. Outside the Family
Children are employed by others in bonded work, apprenticeship, skilled trades (Carpet, embroidery, and brass/copper work), industrial unskilled occupations/ mines, domestic work, commercial work in shops and restaurants, begging, prostitution and po*******hy. MIGRANT CHILD LABOUR
Child migrate from the rural area to the urban or from smaller to larger towns cities either with their families or alone. They migrate either for better employment opportunities or to escape from bo***ge
BONDED CHILD LABOUR
Children are pledged by their parents guardians to employers in lieu of debts or payment. The rates of interest on loans are so high that the amount to be repaid accumulates every year, making repayment almost impossible
The phenomenon of urban child labour includes street children. These children belong to three broad categories:
Children on the Street
· Working children who have families but spend most of their time in streets
· They earn for themselves and may or may not contribute to the family income. Children off the Streets
· Working children who have left their families in villages or towns and have migrated to the city.
· They do not have a place to live and hence spend their nights at the railway platforms, bus stands etc.
· They live independently and usually spend all that they earn in the same day. Abandoned/Orphaned Children
· Working children without families or whose families have abandoned them
· They spend their lives on the streets without any kind of support and are hence the most exploited and abused of the lot. INVISIBLE CHILD LABOUR
· Children work in the unorganized or/and informal sector
· They do not come under the purview of law
· They constitute a substantial proportion of the child labour in the country
· Most of them do not go to school
