Tribal Labour Law Employment and Administration

Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Situation of tribal peoples. 3. Identity politics and administration. 4. Class, resistance and identity. 5. Reservations in employment. 6. Constitutional limits and judicial control. 7. Tribal question and tribal movements. 8. Formal law interface in North Eastern India. 9. Tribal communities and livelihoods in Madhya Pradesh, Bihar Jharkand. Bibliography. Index.

The second half of the last decade has seen exponential and unprecedented growth in adivasi participation in the migrant labour market while there is evidence of adivasi participation in migrant labour markets over last four decades, from the nineties onwards the phenomenon has risen to levels that can only be termed as a crisis of enormous proportions.

As livelihoods get eroded, old practices of bonded labour and forced labour are reemerging in myriad new forms. Traditional forms of forest-based employment have significantly reduced over the last two decades as a result of the continuous loss of forest, the disbanding of the forest labour cooperatives and changes in forest policy.