Since 2014, several Indian states have taken steps towards easing labour regulations, the prominent one among them being the raising of the threshold of applicability of Chapter V-B of the Industrial Disputes Act (IDA) from 100 to 300 workers, lifting thereby the requirement of government...

Media articles and scholarly writings in academic journals and books often state that the share of Indian manufacturing in total employment in the economy has been stagnant. This recognized stagnancy in the manufacturing sector’s employment share is interpreted as reflecting a poor performance...

Since 2014, several Indian states have taken steps towards easing labour regulations, the prominent ones among them being the raising of the threshold of applicability of Chapter V-B of the Industrial Disputes Act (IDA) from 100 to 300 workers, lifting thereby the requirement of government...

Estimates of manufacturing employment in India for 2011-12 and 2017-18, presented in several previous studies based on the Employment-Unemployment Survey (EUS) for 2011-12 and the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) for 2017-18 (and later years in some cases), indicate that manufacturing...

The share of contract workers, i.e., the workers employed through contractors, as against the workers directly employed by factories, out of all workers employed in India’s organized manufacturing has increased significantly over the last three decades, from 14 per cent in 1989-90 to 38 per...