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Concerns on International Migration Policy
Trade unions and civil-society organizations submitted a report to the ministry of overseas Indian Affairs (MOIA) on 14 May, 2008, in an effort to shape the development of an international migration policy on which MOIA is currently working, and which is expected to be completed in 2-3 months. .... More
ILO’s World of Work Report 2008
The recently released study by the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the World of Work Report 2008: Income inequalities in the age of financial globalization, explicitly points out that in the last two decades India has witnessed only a one per cent hike in wages as against a 5 per cent growth in productivity. ... More
RTI and Labour
Special Economic Zones: Their Impact on Labour
Jul-Oct 2008
editorial
Special Economic Zones: Their Impact on Labour
In April 2000, the Government of India announced the introduction of the Special Economic Zones (SEZs) policy for the country to enhance foreign investment, promote exports and ensure upward mobility of domestic enterprises and manufactures to compete globally.
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SEZs: The New War Zones of the Working Class
......Surendra Pratap

The current offensive by global powers against the Third World countries comes in the form of imposing liberalisation policies, in which the ‘The Great SEZ Rush’ reflects the dynamics of a new economic and political world order, granting almost full freedom to capital to exploit labour....

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Wading Their Lives Through Ganges
Safai Karamcharis: Reinvented Untouchables in Modern India
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SEZs Spell Disaster for India ......Ashok Ghosh

Special Economic Zones, or SEZs, are an outcome of the planned policy to make Third World countries forever dependent, through the construction of an export-led economy prescribed for the Third World in the name of development. ...

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Book Review
The Textile Mill Workers of Ahmedabad  ......Sharit K. Bhowmik

Working for the Mill No More by Jan Breman and Parthiv Shah...

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Labour in Those Years
Mavoor: A Story of Corporate Social 'Irresponsibility' and Lost Livelihoods  ......Babu P Remesh

The largest private sector industrial unit in Kerala—the Birla Group's Gwalior Rayons factory at Mavoor—was formally shut down on 30 June 2001....

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Legal Diary
Disability Going Beyond Legal Rules  ......Rajasi A Clerk

Labour laws providing for compensatory relief by way of social security generally have precise methods for computing benefits. The benefits accrue when various conditions specified in the statutory provisions are satisfied....

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Labour News
Ye Kaisi Azaadi Hai: Social Security Now Dedicates the Jagjit Singh Song to the People of India  ......Labourfile News Service

Ye Kaisi Azaadi Hai (What freedom is this?), a music video, was dedicated to the people of India by Dr. Shanti Patel, a veteran freedom fighter and ex-mayor of Mumbai, on 21 October 2008, at the ISKON Convention Centre, Juhu, Mumbai....

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