Informal sector in India : perspectives and policies / edited by Amitabh Kundu, Alakh N. Sharma.

Machine generated contents note: Part I: CONCEPTUAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES -- 2. Information Base for the Informal Sector -- S.S. Suryanarayanan -- 3. Informal Sector in India: Its Coverage and Contributions -- A.C. Kulshreshtha and Gulab Singh -- Part II: TRENDS AND PATTERNS AT MACRO LEVEL -- 4. Employment in the Informal Sector -- Arup Mitra -- 5. Growth Dynamics of Informal Manufacturing Sector -- in Urban India: An Analysis of Interdependencies -- Amitabh Kundu, N. Lalitha and Sant Lal Arora -- 6. Wages and Employment in Unorganised Sector: -- Issues in Wage Policy -- Jeemol Unni -- 7. Informalisation of Employment and Poverty in Ahmedabad -- Darshini Mahadevia -- 8. Scalar Linkages in Industries: Implications for -- Productivity and Employment -- Amita Shah -- Part III: STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS AT MICRO LEVEL -- 9. Workers and Earnings in Informal Manufacturing: -- Evidence and Issuesinstimation -- Keshab Das -- 10. Manufacturing Activities in Urban Slums: A Case Study of -- Sandal Making in Hyderabad -- G. Swaroopa Rani and S. Galab -- 11. Political Economy of Labour: A Case Study of Surgical -- InstrumerrtsManufacturing Industry at Jalandhar, Punjab -- Manjit Singh -- 12. Powerlooms in Silk Weaving: Case Studies from Karnataka -- Supriya Roy Choudhary -- 13. Small Information Technology Services, Employment and -- Entrepreneurship Development Some Explorations -- into Indian Experience -- Nagesh Kumar -- 14. Informal Tourism Sector: Insights from Two Cities -- Surjit Singh -- 15. Linkage between Informal and Formal Sectors: -- Some Findings from Micro-level Studies -- Harjit S. Anand -- Part IV: WOMEN IN INFORMAL SECTOR -- 16. Urban Indian Women in Informal Employment: -- Macro Trends in the Nineties -- Jayati Ghosh -- 17. Globalisation, Liberalisation and Women -- Workers in the Informal Sector -- U. Kalpagam -- 18. Impact of Emerging Labour Market on Women and -- Their Households: A Tale of Three Slums in Mumbai -- Sudha Deshpande -- 19. Unorganised Women in an Urban Setting: -- Opportunities and Challenges -- Martin Patrick -- Part V: SUPPORT SYSTEM -- 20. Technology and Training for Informal Sector: -- Need for New Initiatives -- Rajendra P. Mamgain and .C. Awasthi -- 21. Meeting the Credit Needs of the Micro Enterprise Sector: -- Issues in Focus -- Tara Nair -- 22. Moving Towards People-centred Economy -- Ela R.Bhatt -- Part VI: SOCIAL PROTECTION AND ORGANISATION -- 23. Social Security for Workers in Unorganised Sector -- T.S. Sankaran -- 24. Organising Informal Sector Workers -- Navin Chandra and Surendra Pratap -- Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- Index.