Subject(s): Child labor in Government policy in India. -- Education, Compulsory in India. -- India's working children : Bangalore city market, street children of secunderabad, match industry of sivakasi, glass factories of Firozabad, pottery industry of khurja, village near Pune -- Dialogues on child labour/labor : Harbans Singh report, social activist's perspective, industrial relations official, Catholic view, labor ministry official, another view from labor ministry, economist, tea plantation official, labor secretary on carpet industry -- Dialogues on education : Ministry of education official Ahmedabad social activist, Ahmedabad educator, secretary of primary schools, Nana Chowk municipality school, national council of educational research and training, scientist turned educators pushouts or dropouts, educational planner -- Child labor and compulsory education policy : Child labor policy, child labor laws- legislative history, Indian and international labor organization, Rajiv Gandhi's new national policy on education, legislative review -- Historical comparisons- advanced industrial countries : Education v/s work, child labor and poverty, marginal industries, capitalism, law enforcement and child labor laws, right v/s duties of patents, policies and politics of state intervention -- Indian and other developing countries -- Values and interests in public policy : Idea of education as a duty, primary school education and development, Indian views summarized, Indian policies in comparative perspective, politics of doing nothing, religious groups, education officials and teachers, trade unionists, social activists, research community, universal schooling will not come from rising incomes