GLOBALIZATION, GROWTH AND EMPLOYMENT: Challenges and Opportunities

Globalization and subsequent changes are affecting all national economies irrespective of whether it is a transitional, controlled, socialist, or market economy. The result of this change is a paradigm shift in the employment structure of most of the countries. A common trend observed worldwide is that employment is moving away from traditional agriculture to industry and more to services. This volume makes an attempt to evaluate the employment scenario in different sectors of Indian economy after the reforms period. It also makes a comparative study of employment scenario between Gujarat, one of the developed states, and the country as a whole. Employment intensity of economic growth with focus on rural transformation, social security, quality and employability, survival of marginalized labouring poor and social income throws light on the realistic scenario. Retail boom, establishment of SEZs and SIRs and social security schemes like MGNREGA have suggestive thrusts in the domain of employment and consequences such as migration and their effects on society and culture.

CONTRIBUTORS

Dinkar Nayak

Akash Kumra

Jeemol Unni

Ravikiran Naik

Trupti Shah

Aswini Trivedi

Manjira Dasgupta

Paramita Saha

R.C. Popat

Niti Mehta

Shankar Jha

Sangeeta Jha

Kiran Desai

Amita Shah

Jeemol Unni

Guy Standing

Renana Jhabvala

Uma Rani

Arpita Mukherjee

Tanu M. Goyal

Lancy Lobo

Jayesh Shah

Lancy Lobo, a doctorate in sociology from Delhi School of Economics, is Director, Centre for Culture and Development, Vadodara. Earlier, he has also served as Director, Centre for Social Studies, Surat. He has conducted extensive studies on dalits, tribals, OBCs and minorities in rural and urban Gujarat. He was an International Fellow at the Woodstock Centre, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. during 1999-2000. He has authored/co-authored six books.

Jayesh Shah is Research Associate at the Centre for Culture and Development, Vadodara. He is a doctorate in management from the M. S. University of Baroda. He also holds postgraduate diplomas in Industrial Relations, Labour Laws, Organization Behaviour, Clinical Psychology and Computer Science. He has served as Chief Executive Officer in a leading international company for more than ten years. Earlier, he worked as freelance Management Consultant for more than 10 years in Gujarat. He has conducted extensive studies on labour, employment and industry and has also contributed many articles to professional journals.