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Human Bondage: Tracing its Roots in India is an in-depth study of bonded labor with special focus on how the system exists in India. The book provides us with a detailed analysis of the historical, social and cultural context in which bondage has developed.
The author discusses the socio-economic characteristics that accompany bondage: caste, illiteracy, landlessness and land tenure issues, alienation of land, lack of skills, poor employment and wage conditions, indebtedness, migration, and globalization.
Extreme forms of bondage, including child labor, trafficking in women and children, and social forms like devadasis and yoginis have also been covered.
The book explores important factors like the legal framework, policy interventions, solutions and the role of the various stakeholders—media, government, trade unions and NGOs—in tackling this issue.
The book is essentially about human freedom and dignity—the quintessence of human existence—and the forces that rob them, the dispossessed victims, consequences of dispossession, and ways and means of restoration.
Unemployment, Underemployment, and Income Insecurity
Unemployment, Underemployment, and Income Insecurity
Convention No. 122 of the International Labour Conference, adopted on June 17, 1964, speaks of “full, freely chosen and productive employment” as an important goal to be achieved by every member state. The framework of this Convention is largely modeled on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which provides that “everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.” Article 1 of the Convention brings out the implications of “full, freely chosen and productive employment,” both, as a major goal, as well as, an active policy in the following words:
There is work for all who are available for and seeking work;
Such work ...
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