The Casual Labor Problem in Indian Manufacturing

Ralph C. James

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1960, vol. 74, issue 1, 100-116

Abstract: I. Introduction, 100. — II. Labor supply instability, some Indian-American comparisons, 101; turnover, 101; absenteeism, 103; the casual labor problem, 104; "decasualization" as a possible solution, 106. — III. Eliminating the casual labor market for cotton textile workers in Bombay city, 108; the casual labor problem in the 1920's, 108; the employer's approach: mill decasualization (1930's), 108; the government's scheme for industry decasualization (1950's), 109; the belief in corruption which no longer exists, 112. — IV. A recapitulation, 113. — V. Policy implications of the Bombay approach, 114.

Date: 1960
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