Faced with easier access to foreign technology and imported capital goods, firms in India's organised manufacturing … production. This has raised much concern about the ability of the manufacturing sector to create jobs for India's rapidly rising …

After following inward oriented economic policies for nearly four decades, India opened up to international trade in …

One particularly significant piece of labour legislation in India is the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act … referred to as 'contract' labour in India. This paper seeks to examine this Act and its implication for manufacturing … employment in India. While empirical evidence seems to indicate the presence of large number of 'contract' workers in the Indian …