Labour Class Childrens Schooling in Urban India: A Sociological Account [Hardcover]

Dedication

Table of contents

Acknowledgments

1. Making a case for sociological accounts of childhood, labour and schooling

1. Theorising the link between educational and socioeconomic inequalities
2. Poverty and poor childrens schooling in development discourses

1. The girl effect

3. Informal work

1. A note on the term, labour class

4. Methods
5. Organisation of the book

2. Theorising intersections: poverty, patriarchy and urban childrens schooling in India

1. Socioeconomic and educational stratification and access to schooling

1. Stratification, participation and access
2. Decision-making within families

2. Classroom processes, experience and social relations

1. Teacher attitudes and discrimination
2. Welfare, poverty and social class difference

3. Theoretical framework

1. Childhood, the school/labour binary and political economy