Synopsis Child Labour has over the past few years shot to prominence as the media and various agencies are now paying greater attention to the monstrous problem. While throwing light on all dimensions of child labour as illustrated, by examples drawn from various centres in India where the enterprises of the rich thrive on in-human exploitation of the young and the adolescent, the book Child Labour and Child Rights: A Compendium, serves as a guide to researches, activists, policy makers and agencies in the analysis of the issues involved, formulation evaluation and implementation of various programmes that aim to ameliorate their plight.