Globalization, Labour Market Institutions, Processes and Policies in India: Essays in Honour of Lalit K. Deshpande K.R. Shyam Sundar

1. Introduction: Towards an Understanding of Informality and Precarity and of Some Institutional Developments and Challenges in Labour Markets and Industrial Relations in a Globalizing India

Part I. Mapping and Understanding Informal Labour

2. What Do We Know About Firms in the Informal Manufacturing Sector in India?

3. Exploring the Pattern of Trade Union Activity in the Indian Manufacturing Sector

4. Labour Regulations and Informalization of Industrial Labour in India

5. Precarious Work, Globalization and Informalization of Workforce: Empirical Evidence from India

Part II. Profiles of Informality and Precarity: Industry and Occupational Studies

6. Emerging Vulnerabilities in India’s Plantation Economy

7. Informality in the Indian Automobile Industry

8. Precarious Flexibilities: Employment Relations in the Indian Information Technology Industry

9. Representations of Insecurities and the Quest for Voice Among Information Technology Personnel

10. Indian Freelancers in the Platform Economy: Prospects and Problems

11. Non-standard Employment, Labour Laws and Social Security: Learning from the US Gig Economy Debate

12. Redemption of Building and Construction Workers in India: Will-O’-The-Wisp?

13. The Language of Employment Contract: Paid Domestic Work Practices and Relations

14. An Ongoing Battle for Rights: The Case of Anganwadi Workers with Special Reference to Maharashtra

Part III. Understanding Industrial Relations and the Dynamics of Trade Unions and Workers’ Organizations

15. Labour Rights in Globalizing World and India

16. Is There a Fix for Industrial Relations?

17. Reflections for Unionization in a Globalized World: Evidences of a Converging Divergence

Part IV. Jobless Growth, Industrial and Employment Policies and Labour Law Reforms

18. The Dynamic Nature of Jobless Growth in India

19. Labour Market in Kerala: Examining the Role of Industrial and Employment Policies

20. What Employment Policy for a Globalized India?

21. Dynamics of Reforms of Labour Market and the Industrial Relations System in India