Every day, women leave their children behind to enter factory gates and begin their work-day anxious about the safety and security of their young ones. Anxiety about children can translate into lower productivity, absenteeism and worker attrition, making pre-school children’s welfare an employment-related concern. Despite legislative mandates for early childcare at the workplace, children under the age of six years belonging to households of the working poor do not always receive the physical, emotional and intellectual nourishment they require to grow into healthy and capable citizens of tomorrow. Rather than look for targets to blame for this transgression, the subject that needs systematic analysis is how this trend can be reversed for the benefit of children, workers and industry.
This study looks into causes, impacts and potential solutions for childcare in the garment sector.
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Taking care of business: Childcare in Bangalore’s apparel industry