Precarious Work in India
Trends and Emerging Issues
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3756835 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dibyendu Maiti (0000-0003-4187-7047, University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 507-530 |
| Publication date | 2013-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002764212466247 |
| OpenAlex | W2123227139 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 9 |
Workers in India are becoming increasingly precarious in spite of its significant economic growth during the past two decades. The extent of informalization and casualization, used as proxies for precariousness, can be deduced from government sources and shows that the size of the informal sector not only constitutes almost 90% of the working population but also is growing. While the informal sector is not an accurate measure of precarious work, two specific characteristics of Indian precarious work are highlighted. The first deals with nonregistered establishments, unmaintained accounts, and hiring no more than 10 workers, officially defined as the "informal sector." Individuals engaged in this sector experience precarious employment. The second group involves workers engaged in the formal sector on short-term contracts. Combined, the size of both types of precarious work has increased sharply in the postreform period beginning in the early 1990s. The supposed rigidity of labor laws is often used to explain the rise in precarious employment. However, the article finds that although the numbers of industrial disputes and wage shares have declined, the use of contract work has increased in the formal sector, and thus the labor market has been conducive to industrial expansion in spite of the absence of substantial labor law reform
Economic growth · Economic sector · Economics · Economy · Government (linguistics) · Informal sector · Labour economics · Political science · Precarious work · Secondary sector of the economy · Temporary work · Wage · Work (physics) · Asian Industrial and Economic Development · Employment and Welfare Studies · Indian Economic and Social Development
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| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |