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In recent years there has been widespread reports in the media, both inside and outside the country, about the exploitation of child labour, including bonded labour in India’s carpet industry. In the wake of the criticisms, several measures have been initiated to tackle the problem of child labour in carpet production. Social labeling was one such initiative introduced in the nineties. It aims at improving the living and working conditions of the weaving ...
This volume, containing twenty one articles from experts and activists, provides an indepth insight into the recent developments and processes at work in the rural labour markets in India and evaluates how far the attempts towards their empowerment have been successful. In this context, this volume examines in detail, both at micro and macro levels, the role of operations of the market forces, state interventions and mobilisation by trade unions, political ...
Significant changes have taken place in the Indian labour market after the initiation of liberalization, globalisation and privatization policies in 1991. In this context, it becomes important to examine the controversial issue of labour flexibility vis-?-vis economic liberalisation. While in India there have been some attempts to study labour flexibility at the macro level, very few have been made at the micro or enterprise level. And even if there have been, ...
The role of rural non-farm sector (RNFS) is crucial both in generating productive employ-ment and alleviating poverty in rural areas because of the urban sector and near saturation of the agricultural sector in further absorption of workers. Policy makers are increasingly recognizing the importance of RNFS in providing sustainable livelihoods to a large number of people in rural areas. However, in spite of a lot of research that has been carried out, our ...