The study of industrial labour in post-colonial India-the informal sector: A concluding review

Contributions to Indian Sociology

Volumn 33, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 407-431

  Breman, Jan ^a  

^a Centre for Asian Studies in Amsterdam   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMAL SECTOR; LABOR MARKET; LABOR RELATIONS; POST-COLONIALISM;

INDIA;

EID: 0032739545     PISSN: 00699667     EISSN: 09730648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/006996679903300117     Document Type: Article

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