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This book critically examines the emerging trends in employment and unemployment in the Indian Economy during the post-reform era. Using the latest round of NSS data, the author studies the impact of these structural economic reforms on: - Empl
This pioneering book provides a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of employment and unemployment trends for Kerala utilizing the most reliable statistics, combined with the author′s own sample survey. The aim is to understand the causes for the very high rate of unemployment in Kerala despite the fact that it scores very high in social development indices.
This book is a systematic study (the first of its kind) of the impact of migration on Kerala s community and society. It looks at the number of emigrants and return emigrants and their impact on unemployment and self-employment; impact of remittances on household income and poverty, and the impact of migration on the elderly and women.
This book critically examines the emerging trends in employment and unemployment in the Indian Economy during the post-reform era. Using the latest round of NSS data, the author studies the impact of these structural economic reforms on:- Employment generation, with reference to different and competing sectors--rural / urban; agricultural / non-agricultural; organised / unorganised.- Unemployment and underemployment, in terms of the apprehension that economic reforms lead to loss of employment.-Casualisation of employment-- that is, a belief that reforms lead to increase in the proportion of casual labour.- Information of employment-Feminisation of employment.Unique in the fact that there is no comparable work on the topic, this book provides an excellent organisation of the material and a lucid presentation of the discussion and will be of enormous interest to economists, social scientists, policy makers, scholars and students.
Stories of desert landscapes, cutting-edge production facilities, and lavish festivals often dominate narratives about film and digital media on the Arabian Peninsula. However, there is a more complicated history that reflects long-standing interconnections between the Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea, and Indian Ocean. Just as these waters are fluid spaces, so too is the flow of film and digital media between cultures in East Africa, Europe, North Africa, South Asia, Southwest Asia, and Southeast Asia. Reorienting the Middle East examines past and contemporary aspects of film and digital media in the Gulf that might not otherwise be apparent in dominant frameworks. Contributors consider oil compan...
Migrant Encounters examines what happens when migrants across Asia encounter the restrictions and opportunities presented by state actors and policies. Contributions draw on original ethnographic work foregrounding migrants' intimate lives to argue that such encounters unpredictably transform migrants and the states between which they move.