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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.

Globalization, Labour Market Institutions, Processes and Policies in India: Essays in Honour of Lalit K. Deshpande

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 Insecurities and 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.