Management Of Unorganized Labour Force In India An Uncommon Approach

The Covid-19 disaster has brought to centre stage the colossal investment the country is required to make in key areas of social policies, labour reforms and support systems. With 90% of our people working in the informal economy, India is grappling with a herculean task of protecting these workers, their livelihoods & households. This massive informal work force lacks regularity in employment, social security benefits and faces low wages and poor working conditions. This widespread informality in India is unlikely to disappear in near future. The present article is an attempt to put forward a comprehensive proposal for formalization of working under informal sector in such a manner that ensures durable employment, fair wages and self-reliant dignified life style to all wage earners and also bring win-win situations for different stakeholders of informal economy.

Based on data from the 61st round of the National Sample Survey 2004-2005. Provides an analysis of the conditions of work and lives of the unorganised workers consisting of about 92 per cent of the total workforce of about 457 million (as of 2004-05).

This essential Handbook makes underground, hidden, grey economies intelligible and consistently quantifiable. An invaluable tool for statistics producers and users and researchers, the book explains how the non-observed economy can be measured and ...

Classes of Labour: Work and Life in a Central Indian Steel Town is a classic in the social sciences. The rigour and richness of the ethnographic data of this book and its analysis is matched only by its literary style. This magnum opus of 732 pages, an outcome of fieldwork covering twenty-one years, complete with diagrams and photographs, reads like an epic novel, difficult to put down. Professor Jonathan Parry looks at a context in which the manual workforce is divided into distinct social classes, which have a clear sense of themselves as separate and interests that are sometimes opposed. The relationship between them may even be one of exploitation; and they are associated with different lifestyles and outlooks, kinship and marriage practices, and suicide patterns. A central concern is with the intersection between class, caste, gender and regional ethnicity, with how class trumps caste in most contexts and with how classes have become increasingly structured as the ‘structuration’ of castes has declined. The wider theoretical ambition is to specify the general conditions under which the so-called ‘working class’ has any realistic prospect of unity.

International and Comparative Human Resource Management offers students a clear and contemporary introduction to issues in managing the human aspects of international organisations. International Human Resource Management (IHRM) has grown in significance as a field of study over the past decade, due to the internationalisation of business, freedom of movement of labour and capital, and international regulation of employment matters. This new book takes a fresh and distinctive approach, combining analysis of international HR policy and practice with detailed exposition of contexts and systems of HR in a selection of developed and developing countries.

Contributed articles presented in two workshops organized mainly by Institute of Human Development and French Institute of Pondicherry in 2006 and 2007.