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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 …
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 …
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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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Obituary: Sharmila Rege (1964 to 2013)
Patel, Vibhuti - eSocialSciences - 2013
Obituary: Sharmila Rege (1964 to 2013)
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Restructuring Public Sector Hospital Services: Marginalising the Poor
Roy, Bijoya - eSocialSciences - 2006
The paper examines the state of public sector hospitals, how they are being compelled to transform into profit churning units through reforms, and in the process alienating poor and the underprivileged groups from public hospital inpatient care.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341645
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Urban Studies: An Exploration in Theory and Practices
Patel, Sujata - eSocialSciences - 2006
What is the character of our cities? What are the attributes of inequalities and social exclusions in towns, metropolises and mega cities? How do urban structures and forms characteristic of pre capitalist cities of India reorganize itself as capitalist relations enter into these cities? What...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341650