State, Labour and Development : An Indian Perspective
Contents: Preface and acknowledgements. Introduction/K.K. Bagchi and Nirupam Gope. 1. State, market and labour/L. Mishra. 2. The Labour Movement and the state: a global perspective/A. Venkateswarlu. 3. State intervention and labour market in India: issues and options/Dipa Mukherjee and Rajarshi Majumder. 4. State, market and labour: An Indian experience/K. Alamar and N. Murali. 5. Wage policy for public sector employees in India/S.V. Hariharan. 6. Are retrenchment laws inefficient?/Errol D\'Souza. 7. Growth of labour productivity, wage share and total factor productivity in organised manufacturing during 1981-89: the experience of West Bengal/Maniklal Adhikary and Ritwik Mazumder. 8. Irresponsible state, predatory capital and vulnerable labour: evidences from India/G.B. Nath. 9. Neo-liberal labour market reforms and work stoppages: comparisons of India, Indonesia, United States and Australia/L.J. Perry. 10. Restructuring and employment adjustment, Japanese experience: lessons for India/Sib Ranjan Misra. 11. Protection of labour rights: an appraisal of labour laws in Nepal/Shyam Bahadur Katuwal. 12. State, migrant workers and ethnic polarisation: the case of North-East India/Vandana Upadhyay. 13. Social security for old aged people in India/Nirmala Kumari. 14. Social security for the unemployed in India/Prakash S. Kamble. 15. Social security for domestic workers: a case study/Anupama. 16. State and home-workers: a study of legislation for Beedi workers in India/P. Madhavi. 17. State activism in \'Labour\' Market: a study of Gujarat, Maharashtra and Kerala/Arti Nanavati. 18. State and unorganised labour: the Orissa scenario/D.V. Giri and P.C. Das. 19. Child labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986--its objectives and outcomes/Mini Goyal and Pratibha Goyal. 20. Labour standards in the times of globalisation: a case of implementing minimum wages/Manali Chakrabarti and Rahul Varman. 21. Labour employment in Punjab agriculture and the state policies/M.S. Toor, S.S. Chahal and H.S. Kingra. 22. Effective labour management relations in a public sector giant/A. Jagan Mohan Reddy. Contributors. Index.
"The book deals with the relationship between the state, labour and development in the contemporary India as of now at the first decade of the Twenty First Century in the era of liberalization, privatisation and globalisation. It contains as many as 22 articles exploring the theme. The articles are written by 20 committed and dedicated labour economists from India, one from Australia and one from Nepal. The papers deal with both theoretical and empirical issues, general issues as well as specific issues and case studies. The papers include areas like the evolution of labour movement in a global perspective and in the Indian perspectives areas like labour market flexibility, labour laws, wages determination, the problems of migrant labours, social security for both employed and unemployed labour and the old aged, child labour, minimum wages, problems of the unorganized sector labour and agricultural labour and a comparative study of the rise of neo-liberal labour market reforms in India, Indonesia, the United States and Australia during recent decades.
The book will be of utility to the researchers and policy makers alike in the field of labour in India in particular and that of developing countries in general." (jacket)
