Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The Indian Labour Year Book
Author: The Indian Labour Year Book
Author: Indian Labour Statistics
Author: India. Labour BureauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Includes statistics generally up to the previous year.
The Everyday Politics of Labour
Author: Geert de NevePublisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9788187358183
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Following increased integration in global economic networks, some of India's informal sectors have expanded drastically in recent decades and are employing an increasing number of the country's working population. This book presents a powerful critique of the simplified representations that portray workers' politics in this informal sector as marked by low levels of class consciousness, limited abilities for resistance, and ruled by 'primordial' relations of caste, kinship and patronage. This study will be of interest to students of economy, politics, sociology and social anthropology as well as scholars of development studies.
Born to Work
Author: Labour, Employment and Economic Growth
Author: K. V. RamaswamyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107096804
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
"Discusses some key aspects in the interrelated areas of economic development, employment and structural change"--
Lost Worlds
Author: Chitra JoshiPublisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 1843311291
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
A study of Indian labour and its forgotten histories.
Labour Problems in Indian Industry
Author: Varahagiri Venkata GiriPublisher: Bombay ; Asia Publishing House
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Informal Labour in Urban India
Author: Tom BarnesPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317571010
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
During the last two decades, rapid economic growth and development in India has been based upon the mass employment of informal labour. Using case studies from three urban regions, this book examines this growth in modern India’s cities and towns. It argues that India has undergone a process of uneven and combined development during its integration with the world economy, leading to a distorted form of urban development. This book is about work and resistance in India’s massive ‘informal economy’. It looks at the growth of informal labour in Bangalore, Mumbai and New Delhi during an era of neoliberal economic policymaking. Going beyond mainstream accounts, it argues that India’s rapid economic development has been based upon the mass employment of workers on low wages who lack basic social protection and rights at work. It discusses how urban development in India is characterised by a combination of industrialisation, industrial relocation, restructuring and informalisation. Departing from some existing studies of de-industrialisation, it re-frames informalisation as a process that complements, rather than contradicts, contemporary industrialisation in rapidly-emerging economies. The book adopts a ‘classes of labour’ approach, classifying each case of informal labour as a specific ‘form of exploitation’: as a different way for employers to lower production costs, control workers and increase enterprise flexibility. Offering a critique of existing data on the measurement and monitoring of informal labour and employment, the book is relevant to students and scholars of Development Studies, International Political Economy and South Asian Studies.
The Coolie's Great War
Author: Radhika SinghaPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197566901
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Though largely invisible in histories of the First World War, over??550,000 men in the ranks of the Indian army were non-combatants. From the porters, stevedores and construction workers in the Coolie Corps to those who maintained supply lines and removed the wounded from the battlefield, Radhika Singha recovers the story of this unacknowledged service. The labor regimes built on the backs of these 'coolies' sustained the military infrastructure of empire; their deployment in interregional arenas bent to the demands of global war. Viewed as racially subordinate and subject to 'non-martial' caste designations, they fought back against their status, using the warring powers' need for manpower as leverage to challenge traditional service hierarchies and wage differentials. The Coolie's Great War views that global conflict through the lens of Indian labor, constructing a distinct geography of the war--from tribal settlements and colonial jails, beyond India's frontiers, to the battlefronts of France and Mesopotamia.