Summary
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Economic Reforms and Social Exclusion is an analytical study that focuses on the socially marginalized and excluded groups in India since the onset of liberalization. It examines how the liberal economic reforms have impacted socio-economic categories—caste, tribe and religious minorities—subjecting them to further deprivation.
Case studies of handloom weavers, VRS workers and the temperance movement have awarded this study empirical reality. The book also offers a refreshing approach to the study of economic reforms through philosophical and theoretical arguments on issues like civil society, religion, caste and alienation.
Since most of the scholarly works on social exclusion are based on Western notions of ‘deprivation’ and ‘exclusion’, this work's unique focus on India lends the reader a context-specific understanding of the subject. The jargon free language makes the book readable even for a general reader to help him/her to understand Indian society
Exit Policy and the Welfare of the Working Classes
Exit Policy and the Welfare of the Working Classes
The Context
The economic reforms introduced in the country without proper preparation to withstand the shocks have created several new categories of disadvantaged. Apart from the traditional social groups, the emerging marginalized sections are going to create new problems. One of such groups identified in the public sector is the voluntary retirement scheme (VRS) workers. The exit policy that has been introduced in the industrial sector after reforms has far-reaching implications for the society. We have conducted a survey in an industrial city to analyze the negative consequences of the policy on the working classes.
The Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) initiated by the government in the 1980s was formally declared ...
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