Labour Reforms and Decent Work in India : A Study of Labour Inspection in India By K R Shyam Sundar

Labour Reforms and Decent Work in India : A Study of Labour Inspection in India

By K R Shyam Sundar

ISBN No.: 9788189640934

Pages: 313p

Edition: 2010(HardBound)

Price: Rs 595.00

About the Book Globalization is an over arching phenomenon which is reflective of and contributing to the radical developments in the field of technology, communications, competition in the product and factor markets, role of state and so on. Globalization, thus understood, has posed enormous challenges to the institutions of labour regulation. Labour regulation is one component of social regulations that seeks to govern the labour market and the industrial relations system. Employers and critics of labour regulation in India seek reforms in almost all spheres of labour regulation; they have criticized the so-called 'Inspector Raj' and labour bureaucracy and demanding reforms in both. Trade unions too criticize the deficiencies in the inspection system, but from a different perspective. The regional governments have been keen to introduce reforms in labour inspection system in response to employers' demands. Thus, the institutional framework of labour market governance is in a flux. View points clash, controversies galore and perspectives are lost. Studies literature on some aspects of them such as labour inspections is desirable, even necessary. This monograph on labour inspection is an attempt in this regard. The monograph will be useful to labour administrators, policy markets, trade union, employers, as well as to academics interested in the world of work. About the Author K.R.Shyam Sundar is a Reader in the Department of Economics, Guru Nank Coolege of Arts, Science and commerce which is affliated to Mumbai University. He holds a Ph.D. Degree in Economics from Mumbai University. He has published over fourty research articles and book reviews in the field of Industrial Relations and Labour Economics in well known research outlel such as the Indian Journal of labour Economics, Economics and Political Weekly,Indian Journal of Industrial Relations. He Has been a visiting Fellow at the International Institute of Lbour Studies, International Labour Office, Geneva, during 2006. HE has completed five research projects on topices such as Labour Regulation and social Dialogue sponsored by agencies like the European Union, the international Labour Office. He Visited China in 2008 to study the issues of Labour flexibility an Labour Law Reforms in China under the cultural Exchange programme of academics between India and China. His books include Benchmarking Industrial Relations and Labour Market (2008) (Published by the ICFAI University, Hyderabad), etc.