Informal Employment in India : Issues and Challenges

Contents: 1. Introduction. 2. Migrant laborers in the urban informal sector a socio-economics analysis/Bikram K. Pattanaik. 3. Social protection status of women workers in SEZs in India/Halima Sadia Rizvi and Isha Jaswal. 4. Gender inequalities and human right violations of women workers in unorganized labor sector/Abhishek Jain. 5. Impact of MNREGA on the rural labor market a micro study/G.S. Mehta. 6. Impact of urbanization on informal labor migration in India/Kailas C. Thaware. 7. Problems of domestic female workers a micro study/Jesma J. Macedo and M. James Antony. 8. Determinants of self employability of female informal entrepreneurs : a field level investigation/Dnyandev Talule and Shinde M.H. 9. Climate change and informal labor migration in India/Satinder Rana and Shanno Thakur. 10. Income levels of migrant informal labor in India a field level investigation/Seepana Prakasam. This book will meet the requirements of students, research scholars, policy makers, social workers and the general public who would be interested in knowing about the employment conditions of informal labor in India during globalization. The matter has been put across in a simple and readable form to enable even a general reader to benefit from this book. This book is comprehensive has an integrated approach and has synthesized research outcomes provided by a number of intellectuals. The subject matter has been presented in a logical order in a lucid and narrative style, aimed to give a thorough grounding on the subject. All the research papers are suitably arranged section wise so that readers can pick up a section of their interest and omit the rest. (jacket)