Employment in the Informal Sector in India / by Ishita Mukhopadhyay
(India Studies in Business and Economics. ISSN:21980020)
| Publisher | (Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Springer) |
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| Year | 2022 |
| Edition | 1st ed. 2022. |
| Authors | *Mukhopadhyay, Ishita author SpringerLink (Online service) |
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| Size | XIII, 144 p. 11 illus., 5 illus. in color : online resource |
| Notes | Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Expansion and expectation: footloose-ness -- Chapter 3: Did we explain? -- Chapter 4: Alternative explanation from labour studies -- Chapter 5: Transition in Indian employment -- Chapter 6: Definitional Dilemma -- Chapter 7: Process of Informalisation of employment -- Chapter 8: Primary surveys of Kolkata Informal employment -- Chapter 9: Is Indian urban employment informalised? -- Chapter 10: Emergence of rural informal sector in India -- Chapter 11: Gendering Informality -- Chapter 12: Informal sector and capital -- Chapter 13: Workers, quality of life and role of capital -- Chapter 14: Is future to be seen?. This book examines the transition, transformation and future of the informal sector, informal work and informal workers in India from the perspectives of development economics as well as those of international organisations. Though the informal sector has a long tradition in India, it has been transformed in the wake of neoliberal economic policy. The sector took on new prominence in the 1980s, and has since grown much stronger and established itself as the country’s dominant sector. Several reports on the informal sector appeared during this period, and the status of the sector in India is positioned in the context of this international scenario. The major debate concerns the definition of this sector. While international labour statisticians had suggested a mechanism of definition and measurement of the sector, Indian official statistics took a different approach. The book analytically elaborates the different definitions and measurement controversies in different countries and contextualises the official Indian position. While deliberating on the size, contribution, productivity, and potential of the informal sector, the heterogeneity and decomposition of the sector with respect to these aspects are also suggested. The book develops a political economic interpretation of the historical transition of the informal sector in India, employing heterodox economics as a theoretical basis, with a critical note on standard neoclassical economic analysis. The final part of the book focuses on understanding the development of capitalism in the country under neoliberalism, as that development is crucial to understanding the informal sector in any country, and particularly in India. In the current context, the volume will be of great relevance to researchers, non-government organizations, policy makers and international organisations working on the topic HTTP:URL=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0841-7 |
| Subjects | LCSH:Labor economics LCSH:Population—Economic aspects LCSH:Development economics LCSH:Economics LCSH:Microeconomics LCSH:Economic development FREE:Labor and Population Economics FREE:Development Economics FREE:Economics FREE:Microeconomics FREE:Development Studies |
| Classification | LCC:HD4801-8943 LCC:HB849.41 DC23:331 |
| ID | 8000079009 |
| ISBN | 9789811508417 |
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