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Book Review: Work, Life in IT: Contradictions and Redefinitions
De, Rahul - eSocialSciences - 2008
Review of In An Outpost of the Global Economy: Work and Workers in India's Information Technology Industry. Edited by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009250191
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Human Cost of Making Bricks
Kant, Nalini - eSocialSciences - 2006
In India, thousands of women, men and children slave away in the brick kilns. Common to almost all brick kilns is the use of violence, over or implicit. Women and girls, however, are profoundly affected. Many girls and young women are raped, numbers of families are held as virtual slaves, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487763
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Approach Paper: Vulnerabilities of Women Homebased Workers`
Mazumdar, Indrani - eSocialSciences - 2011
This paper focuses on homebased women workers and discusses the specific issues of their vulnerability as women and as workers, in the framework of their basic citizenship right to economic and social justice and equality. The class of more privileged educated professionals who might be working...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009390660
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Social Science Research Methods and Knowledge-Claims
Judge, Paramjit S - eSocialSciences - 2007
This paper explores three important but interrelated issues: The power of example; the fragment as evidence; and finally, the field experience and the possibility of generalisation. These issues are central in the current discourse of social science practice in which serious doubts are being raised...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487794
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Driving Force: Labour Struggles and Violation of Rights in Maruti Suzuki India Limited
Rights, PUDR Peoples Union for Democratic - eSocialSciences - 2013
As reports of severe harassment of Maruti workers and their families trickled in in late July 2012, Peoples Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) undertook a fact finding investigation into the incident, its context and implications. [PUDR]....
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The Impact of NREGA on Rural-Urban Migration: Field survey of Villupuram District, Tamil Nadu
Jacob, Naomi - eSocialSciences - 2013
to cities to find work because they cannot survive on what they can earn in their own villages. Can NREGA be used to curb …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945416
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Book Review: Revisiting the Labour Movement
Blanchard, Peter - eSocialSciences - 2006
. Nevertheless, the unifying elements are labour and the issues confronted by the work force through the twentieth century. …Review of Vincent C. Peloso(ed) Work, Protest, and Identity in Twentieth-Century Latin America, Jaguar Books on Latin … America Series. The book is obviously designed for those teaching courses on 20th century labour movements, providing both …
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The Behavioral Equivalence of Organizational Culture
Rao, Indu - eSocialSciences - 2009
This paper presents findings from an extensive review of literature on organizational cultural (OC) and highlights the relevance of OC with respect to individual, organizational, intra-organizational, industry and external environment related variables. This paper presents a behavioral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004982517
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The Great Education Muddle: State Failure and Judicial Jigsaw
Radhakrishnan, P. - eSocialSciences - 2005
A comprehensive White Paper on India’s higher education policy for a pragmatic programmatic for at least the next 20 years is urgently needed. Such a Paper should take stock of the present and required availability of access taking into consideration the size of the age-cohort population...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005170133
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Human Rights Violations Against Sexuality Minorities in India
Karnataka, PUCL - eSocialSciences - 2007
This report is located in the twin contexts of the global movement for recognition of sexuality minority rights and the increasing assertiveness of sexuality minority voices at the local level. It examines the human rights violations suffered by sexuality minorities in India (with specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005170164