Changing Employment Conditions of the Indian Workforce and Implications for Decent Work

Authors

  • Ravi Srivastava Jawaharlal Nehru University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15173/glj.v3i1.1113

Keywords:

decent work, employment structure, flexible labour, homeworkers, India, informal employment,

Abstract

This paper analyses recent macro employment trends in India. Analysis of recent data shows increasing informalisation and flexibilisation of labour and challenges the notion that casualisation is the only manner in which flexibilisation and informalisation of labour is occurring in India. It argues that the concern with decent work has to be based on analysis of labour conditions in all major forms of employment. The paper also discusses the main strategies proposed for introducing labour standards and decent work in the Indian context. We argue that in the recent post economic crisis period, there is greater acceptability to improving labour standards and income distribution as a way of sustaining long term growth. This has raised the profile of those Indian initiatives which build upon social and economic rights. Although this paper is based on detailed Indian empirical evidence, the trends that it adduces and its policy implications are of much greater general significance.

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Published

2012-02-20

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 1: January 2012 (Special Issue)

Section

ARTICLES

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