Globalization, Labour Market Institutions, Processes and Policies in India

Chapter 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.- Section 1 Mapping and Understanding Informal Labour.- Chapter 2: What Do We Know About Firms in the Informal Manufacturing Sector in India?.- Chapter 3: Exploring the Pattern of Trade Union Activity in the Indian Manufacturing Sector.- Chapter 4: Labour Regulations and Informalization of Industrial Labour in India.- Chapter 5: Globalisation, Precarious Work and Informalisation of Workforce - Empirical Evidence from India.- Section 2 Profiles of Informality and Precarity - Industry and Occupational Studies.-  Chapter 6: Emerging Vulnerabilities in India's Plantation Economy.- Chapter 7: Informality in the Indian Automobile Industry.- Chapter 8: Precarious Flexibilities: Employment Relations in the Indian IT Industry.- Chapter 9: Representations of Insecurities and the Quest for Voice among Information Technology Personnel.- Chapter 10: Indian Freelancers in the Platform Economy: Prospects and Problems.- Chapter 11: Non-Standard Employment, Labour Law and Social Security: Learning from the US Gig Economy Debate.- Chapter 12: Redemption of Building and Construction Workers in India: Will - O'- The - Wisp?.- Chapter 13: The Language of Employment Contract: Paid Domestic Work Practices and Relations.- Chapter 14: An Ongoing Battle for Rights: The Case of Anganwadi Workers with Special Reference to Maharashtra.- Section 3 Understanding Industrial Relations and the Dynamics of Trade Unions and Workers' Organizations .- Chapter 15: Labour Rights in Globalising World and India.- Chapter 16: Is There a Fix for Industrial Relations?.- Chapter 17: Reflections for Unionization in a Globalized World - Evidences of a Converging Divergence.- Section IV Jobless Growth, Industrial and Employment Policies and Labour Law Reforms.- Chapter

K. R. Shyam Sundar, Professor, XLRI, Xavier School of Management, Jamshedpur, India. Dr Shyam Sundar has published over sixty research articles in prominent journals, thirteen books (including three as an editor), and more than forty articles on Industrial Relations and Labour Economics. He has conducted several projects for the ILO, European Union, etc. and serves on the Editorial Board of the Indian Journal of Labour Economics and Amity Journal of Economics.Contributors:Bishwanath Goldar, Former Professor, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, India. Deb Kusum Das, Associate Professor, Ramjas College, University of Delhi and External Consultant, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, New Delhi, India.D.N. Reddy, Former Professor & Head, Department of Economics, University of Hyderabad, India.E A Ramaswamy, Human Resource Management (HRM) consultant and freelance academic, India.Ernesto Noronha, Professor, Organizational Behaviour Area, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India.Girish Balasubramanian, Assistant Professor, Xavier School of Human Resource Management, Xavier University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.Jaivir Singh, Professor, Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.Jayan Jose Thomas, Associate Professor of Economics, Humanities and Social Sciences Department, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India.Jerome Joseph, Chair Professor, Human Resource Management Area, XLRI, Xavier School of Management, Jamshedpur, India. K.V. Ramaswamy, Professor of Economics, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai, India.Karan Peer, student of MA in Development Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India.Kumar Abhishek, Research Assistant, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, New Delhi, India.Kunal Sen, Professor of Development Economics, Global Development Institute, School of Environment, Education and Development,