000			01219nam a22001697a 4500
999			_c25333 _d25333
020			_a978-0-19-946714-3
082			_a331.0954 _bJHA-L
100			_aJha, Praveen
245			_aLabour in contemporary India
260			_a New Delhi _bOxford University Press _c2016
300			_axx, 229p.
504			_aincluded bibliography and index
520			_aGeneration of decent livelihood opportunities ought to be among the most important objectives on any meaningful agenda of economic development. On this front, however, the Indian experience has remained seriously inadequate. During the first four decades after Independence, India's achievements with respect to the problems of poverty, unemployment, and occupational structural transformation were modest at best. Since the early 1990s, during the era of neo-liberal reforms, while economic growth has remained upbeat, the wellbeing of the masses has shown even greater stress. An indispensable entry point to the subject of labour in India, this Short Introduction locates the debate within the trajectory of economic development since India's independence. (less)
546			_aEnglish
650			_alabour _zIndia
942			_2ddc _cBK