This study, on the impact of privatization on dismissed workers in Turkey, is the first of its kind. It is based on … interviews with dismissed workers in the cement and petrochemicals sectors. Sevred workers suffered significant earning losses … upon re-employment. These losses amounted to an average of 61 per cent for the cement and 57 percent for the Petkim workers …

seems to be depressing the labour market. Unemployment is rising, both absolutely and as proportion of labour force … Globalisation Index, it is observed that except the developed countries, pace and levels of globalisation are affecting the labour … mechanism and improving social security for workers must therefore precede global integration of the economy. …

As reports of severe harassment of Maruti workers and their families trickled in in late July 2012, Peoples Union for …

, Labour Economics must be expanded to encompass work as creative endeavour, -an escape from social isolation, - and …

-seniority workers. …