Liberalisation and Labour, , Lalit K. Deshpande, , Alakh N. Sharma, , Anup K. Karan, , Sandip Sarkar, Manohar Publishers & Distributors, 8188315036

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Liberalisation and Labour

Lalit K. Deshpande (Author) Alakh N. Sharma (Author) Anup K. Karan (Author) Sandip Sarkar (Author)

Synopsis Significant changes have taken place in the Indian labour market after the initiation of liberalization, globalisation and privatization policies in 1991. In this context, it becomes important to examine the controversial issue of labour flexibility vis-?-vis economic liberalisation. While in India there have been some attempts to study labour flexibility at the macro level, very few have been made at the micro or enterprise level. And even if there have been, the scope of the studies has not been extended to the wider national labour market in order to understand dhow liberalisatioin policies have impacted on the labour market and labour relations. This book overcomes this limitation as it is based on a comprehensive labour flexibility survey of more than 1300 firms scattered across ten states and nine important manufacturing industries, undertaken in 1999. The book examines the trends in the Indian labour market in recent years; changes in employment and the factors governing them; the extent of employment and wage flexibilities; as also the impact of trade unions on wages and industrial relations. The book will be useful for all those interested not only in evaluating the impact of economic liberalization and globalisation on the quantity and quality of employment and industrial relations system but also in evolving optimal labour policies in the Indian context.

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About the authors

Lalit K. Deshpande

Lalit K. Deshpande is currently a Visiting Professor at the Institute for Human Development, New Delhi. He had earlier worked as Professor and Director, Department of Economics, University of Mumbai, Mumbai. He has been closely associated with the Indian Society of Labour Economics since long and was its Conference President and Editor of The Indian Journal of Labour Economics. He has almost wholly devoted himself to research work on various aspects of labour, covering such diverse issues as wage determination and policy formulation, employment implications of Indian growth pattern, changing labour market conditions and labour relations.

Alakh N. Sharma

Alakh N. Sharma is the Director of the Institute for Human Development, and the Editor of The Indian Journal of Labour Economics. Earlier, he was a Senior Visiting Fellow, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi; Adviser (Research), V.V. Giri National Labour Institute, NOIDA; Professor, Shri Ram Centre for Industrial Relations, New Delhi; and a faculty member, A.N. Sinha Institute of Social Studies, Patna. He has made significant contributions to research in areas such as poverty, migration, employment and labour markets.

Anup K. Karan

Anup K. Karan is currently a Fellow at the Institute for Human Development. His areas of research interest include poverty, employment, human development and their interlinkages and he has contributed several research papers on these themes in various reputed journals and books.

Sandip Sarkar

Sandip Sarkar, a Fellow at the Institute for Human Development, has been engaged in research on diverse topics such as agro-industry and its linkages with agriculture, poverty, employment conditions in manufacturing, globalisation and the labour market.

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