Using legal empowerment for labour rights in India

Rina Agarwala

No wp-2017-57, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: This paper brings labour back into the literature on legal empowerment against poverty. Employing a historical lens, I outline three waves of legal movements. Each wave is distinguished by its timing, the state-level target, and the actors involved. In all three waves, legal empowerment was won, not bestowed. Labour played a significant role, fighting in each subsequent wave for an expanded identity to address exclusions. These findings reveal the false dichotomy used to distinguish workers from citizens and class from identity-based interests.

Keywords: Labour; Judicial; Legal empowerment; Informal work; Social movement; India (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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