1st Edition

India's Informal Economy Contractual Labour in the Formal Manufacturing Sector

By Bir Singh Copyright 2023
176 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

176 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

176 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The demand for economic inclusion has increasingly intensified, as manifested by the growing movements of farmers, workers and social activists. Therefore, the question of adequate social representation of marginalized and underprivileged communities has to be made pivotal in the discourse of inclusion. This book investigates selected aspects of labour market informality in India. It examines... Read more
  1. India’s Informal Economy and Contractualisation 2. Informality of work and question of inclusion 3. Political Economy of Informalisation of Work 4. Dynamics of Informalisation: An Empirical Analysis 5. Formalisation for Inclusion:The Way Forward

Biography

Bir Singh is an Associate Professor of Economics at Delhi Colleges of Arts and Commerce, New Delhi, India.