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What do you understand by ‘informalisation of labour’? Write your answer with special reference to India.

  • UPSC 2017
  • Works and Economic Life

Informalisation of labour is the process by which a growing share of work loses statutory and contractual protection: job security, social security, regulated hours and collective bargaining. It has two faces, the expansion of the informal sector and the spread of informal employment inside formal establishments. India's National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector…

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