Abstract
This study aims to draw a gender based analysis of social and economic conditions of
child labourers living in Karachi. Globally the issue of child labour is growing constantly
and children are engaged in all sorts of hazardous forms of work, like adults, which
deprives them from education, healthy life, child hood activities and balanced diet. In
Pakistan the child labour is very common in all economic sectors, but it is mainly found
in the informal sector and the household sector. Purposive and convenience sampling
techniques of non-probability sampling are used to collect data through structured
questionnaire from 900 respondents from eighteen (18) administrative districts of
Karachi, which is based upon primarily quantitative and narrowly focused qualitative
research methods. The findings of the study reveal that mostly children between the ages
of 12 to 14 years are commonly inducted in different economic sectors. This clear
violation of child rights makes them vulnerable to health and safety threats and putting
them forcefully in hazardous occupations to earn bread and butter for their family by
compromising their education.
Nasreen Aslam Shah, Rashid Iqbal, Aamir ul Haque. (2018) GENDER BASED ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CONDITIONS OF CHILD LABOURERS LIVING IN KARACHI, Journal of Social Science and Humanities, Volume 57, Issue 2.
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