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dc.contributor.authorHeyer, Judithen
dc.coverage.spatialIndiaen
dc.date.accessioned2016-06-23T14:54:20Z
dc.date.available2016-06-23T14:54:20Z
dc.date.issued2010en
dc.identifier.citationHeyer, J. (2010) Social policy and labour standards: a South Indian case study. Paper presented at Presented at 21st European conference on modern South Asian studies (ECMSAS), Bonn, Germany, 26th July 2010.
dc.identifier.urihttps://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/11874
dc.description.abstractThe paper documents substantial improvements in the living standards of labourers over the past 30 years in villages in the Tiruppur region, a dynamic centre of garment production in western Tamil Nadu. The improvements have been associated with state programmes and policies relating to education, subsidised food, transport and communications, et al., and the growth of rural industrialisation centred on knitwear production for export and domestic markets. There are still very few opportunities for the majority to move into employment other than low skilled manual labour however. This raises questions about the strategy based on ‘cheap labour’ that the Indian state has been pursuing in the recent period. Alternative strategies would almost certainly serve the interests of labour better than this.en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en
dc.subjectSocial Protection
dc.subjectWork and Labour
dc.titleSocial policy and labour standards: a South Indian case studyen
dc.typeConference paperen
dc.identifier.externalurihttps://doi.org/10.35648/20.500.12413/11781/ii092
dc.identifier.agRES-167-25-0296, ES/F026633/1en
dc.identifier.doi10.35648/20.500.12413/11781/ii092


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