About the Book
This book explores the effects of product market and labour market reforms on firms, labour institutions and labour rights in the economic and industrial relations system in India. India has over the years liberalized its economy through a broad range of reforms concerning the product market and complementing these it has also sought to reform the labour market and the industrial relations system. The book assesses the impact of these reforms on both the formal and informal labour markets in India, critically examines the labour processes and uncovers/describes precarious conditions of labour in various industries and occupations, and analyzes the dynamics involved in the making of industrial, employment and labour policies in contemporary India.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Introduction –Towards an Understanding of Informality and Precarity and of Some Institutional Developments and Challenges in Labour Markets and Industrial Relations in a Globalizing India.- Section 1 Mapping and Understanding Informal Labour.- Chapter 2: What Do We Know About Firms in the Informal Manufacturing Sector in India?.- Chapter 3: Exploring the Pattern of Trade Union Activity in the Indian Manufacturing Sector.- Chapter 4: Labour Regulations and Informalization of Industrial Labour in India.- Chapter 5: Globalisation, Precarious Work and Informalisation of Workforce - Empirical Evidence from India.- Section 2 Profiles of Informality and Precarity – Industry and Occupational Studies.- Chapter 6: Emerging Vulnerabilities in India’s Plantation Economy.- Chapter 7: Informality in the Indian Automobile Industry.- Chapter 8: Precarious Flexibilities: Employment Relations in the Indian IT Industry.- Chapter 9: Representations of Insecuritiesand the Quest for Voice among Information Technology Personnel.- Chapter 10: Indian Freelancers in the Platform Economy: Prospects and Problems.- Chapter 11: Non-Standard Employment, Labour Law and Social Security: Learning from the US Gig Economy Debate.- Chapter 12: Redemption of Building and Construction Workers in India: Will - O’- The – Wisp?.- Chapter 13: The Language of Employment Contract: Paid Domestic Work Practices and Relations.- Chapter 14: An Ongoing Battle for Rights: The Case of Anganwadi Workers with Special Reference to Maharashtra.- Section 3 Understanding Industrial Relations and the Dynamics of Trade Unions and Workers’ Organizations .- Chapter 15: Labour Rights in Globalising World and India.- Chapter 16: Is There a Fix for Industrial Relations?.- Chapter 17: Reflections for Unionization in a Globalized World – Evidences of a Converging Divergence.- Section IV Jobless Growth, Industrial and Employment Policies and Labour Law Reforms.- Chapter 18: The Dynamic Nature of Jobless Growth in India.- Chapter 19: Labour Market in Kerala: Examining the Role for Industrial and Employment Policies.- Chapter 20: What Employment Policy for a Globalized India?.- Chapter 21: Dynamics of Reforms of Labour Market and the Industrial Relations System in India.
About the Author :
K. R. Shyam Sundar, Professor, XLRI, Xavier School of Management, Jamshedpur, India. Dr Shyam Sundar has published over sixty research articles in prominent journals, thirteen books (including three as an editor), and more than forty articles on Industrial Relations and Labour Economics. He has conducted several projects for the ILO, European Union, etc. and serves on the Editorial Board of the Indian Journal of Labour Economics and Amity Journal of Economics.
Contributors:
Bishwanath Goldar, Former Professor, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, India.
Deb Kusum Das, Associate Professor, Ramjas College, University of Delhi and External Consultant, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, New Delhi, India.
D.N. Reddy, Former Professor & Head, Department of Economics, University of Hyderabad, India.
E A Ramaswamy, Human Resource Management (HRM) consultant and freelance academic, India.
Ernesto Noronha, Professor, Organizational Behaviour Area, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India.
Girish Balasubramanian, Assistant Professor, Xavier School of Human Resource Management, Xavier University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.
Jaivir Singh, Professor, Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
Jayan Jose Thomas, Associate Professor of Economics, Humanities and Social Sciences Department, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India.
Jerome Joseph, Chair Professor, Human Resource Management Area, XLRI, Xavier School of Management, Jamshedpur, India.
K.V. Ramaswamy, Professor of Economics, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai, India.
Karan Peer, student of MA in Development Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India.
Kumar Abhishek, Research Assistant, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, New Delhi, India.
Kunal Sen, Professor of Development Economics, Global Development Institute, School of Environment, Education and Development, University of Manchester, UK.
M. Vijayabaskar, Professor, Madras Institute of Development Studies. Chennai, India.
M.P. Jayesh, Research Scholar, Humanities and Social Sciences Department, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India.
Neetha N, Professor and Deputy Directorat the Centre for Women’s Development Studies, New Delhi, India.
Nilamber Chhetri, Assistant Professor, Maharashtra National Law University Mumbai, India.
P.K. Viswanathan, Professor, Economics and Sustainability, Department of Management, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi, India.
Prateek Kukreja, Research Associate, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, New Delhi, India.
Premilla D’Cruz, Professor, Organizational Behaviour Area, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India.
Rahul Sapkal, Assistant Professor, Economics, Maharashtra National Law University, Mumbai, India.
Rajesh Raj S.N., Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Sikkim University, Gangtok, Sikkim, India.
Secki P. Jose, Doctoral Student, Department of Management, University of Leicester, UK.
Suchita Krishnaprasad, Associate Professor and Head, Department of Economics, Elphinstone College, Mumbai University, India.
