Employment and Unemployment in India : Emerging Tendencies During the Post-Reform Period

Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Trends in employment. 3. Unemployment and underemployment. 4. Casualisation. 5. Feminisation of labour force. 6. Informalisation of employment. 7. Emerging opportunities for employment: the case of IT and IT-enabled services with special references to business process outsourcing. 8. Summary and conclusions. Appendix. References. Index.

"This book critically examines the emerging trends in employment and unemployment in the Indian economy during the post-reform era. Using the latest round of NSS data, the author studies the impact of these structural economic reforms on:

Employment generation, with reference to different and competing sectors--rural/urban; agricultural/non-agricultural; organised/unorganised.

Unemployment and underemployment, in terms of the apprehension that economic reforms lead to loss of employment.'Casualisation' of employment--that is, a belief that reforms lead to increase in the proportion of casual labour.Informalisation of employment. Feminisation of employment.

Unique in the fact that there is no comparable work on the topic, this book provides an excellent organisation of the material and a lucid presentation of the discussion and will be of enormous interest to economists, social scientists, policy makers, scholars and students."