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What is ‘informal labour’? Discuss the need for and challenges in regulating informal labour in the post-industrial society.

  • UPSC 2019
  • Works and Economic Life

Informal labour is work not governed by state regulation or collective agreement: no written contract, no social security, no paid leave and no effective legal recourse. The ILO's 17th International Conference of Labour Statisticians (2003) moved the definition from the enterprise to the job, so it covers contract and casual workers inside formal firms as…

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  • Forms in post-industrial society
  • Need for regulation
  • Challenges in regulating
  • Emerging responses
  • Conclusion

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