The book Children's Domestic Work brings out a sociological study of children's
work in Indian Families which is based on the research carried out in Conventry
(UK and Lucknow (India). The book questions the assumptions of the existing
literature on children's work in the family, where it is considered as a useful
and beneficial task, and something that children ought to learn. Contrary to the
dominant understanding on domestic work which marginalizes the importance of
children's work in the family, the evidence presented in this book demonstrates
that children's work in the family is a specific part of their agency, which
helps them to construct and reconstruct