Labor laws

India’s economic reforms and its impact on labour*

The economic reforms, initiated in 1991, is a significant development in the history of independent India. It changed the basic philosophy of India’s economic policies by making a paradigm shift from socialistic economic policies to free market neo liberal policies. The economic reforms were initiated to position India as a…

Child Labour : A threat to the Nation’s progress

India contributes a large share of child labor in the world, more specifically in the less developed world. The overwhelming majority of working children in India is in the unorganized, agricultural and allied sectors. Poverty, unemployment/under-employment and illiteracy, are the most important factors that contribute to child labor in India.…