Based on the Annual Survey of Industries two-digit level data for the years 1973-74 and 1993-1994, discusses the changing pattern of labour productivity, labour costs and total factor productivity.

Based on a 1988 survey of 2,682 manufacturing firms. Examines the impact of trade unionism on the labour market, comparing the effect of company unions and industrial unions.

Reviews employment trends in the plantation sector from the early 1970s to the late 1980s.

Covers trends in the 1980s and 1990s. Includes case studies of social and labour policies in eight companies.

Based on in-depth interviews with 18 women and a survey of 98 other low income women which were carried out in 1981. Finds that women heads of households are not necessarily economically disadvantaged and suggests that women may be heads of households by choice.