India's social question in a state of denial

Economic and Political Weekly

Volumn 45, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 42-46

  Breman, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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References (10)

1. Volume I Main Report and Volume II Annexures. Report of the National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector, Government of India, Academic Foundation, New Delhi, 2009. This report as well as the preceding ones are also accessible on web site: www.nceus.gov.in.
2. Jan Breman, "The Political Economy of Unfree Labour in South Asia: Determining the Nature and Scale of Debt Bondage" in Outcast Labour in Asia: Circulation and Informalisation of the Workforce at the Bottom of the Economy (Delhi: Oxford University Press), 2010: 329-359
3. Indira Hirway, Losing the Sparkle: Impact of the Global Crisis on the Diamond Cutting and/Polishing Industry, United Nations Development Programme, India, December 2009.
4. Losing the sparkle: Impact of the global crisis on the diamond cutting and/polishing industry, 2009, Hirway, op cit, p 9.
5. Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA), We, the Self-Employed, SEWA electronic newsletter, No 18, 15 May 2009.
6. For further elaboration see Jan Breman, "Myths of the Global Safety Net", New Left Review, 59, September-October 2009: 29-36.
7. To these priorities I would add settlement security in view of the huge armies of temporary migrants who remain footloose. They are hired and fired according to the need of the moment and are prevented from staying on wherever they have gone in their search for work.
8. The attentive audience of the New Delhi conference just mentioned came to know how a minister who has no economic portfolio, casually observed that there is no need for a new employment policy since no alternative is required for what is being practised.
9. A de Swaan, In Care of the State: Health Care, Education and Welfare in Europe and the USA in the Modern Era, Polity Press, 1990.
10. P Deshingkar and J Farrington (ed.), Circular Migration and Multilocational Livelihood Strategies in Rural India (Delhi: Oxford University Press), 16.