Human bondage [electronic resource] : tracing its roots in India / Lakshmidhar Mishra.
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TextPublication details: New Delhi, India ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (xix, 487 p.)ISBN: - 9788132107705 (electronic bk.)
- 8132107705 (electronic bk.)
- 331.10954 22
- HD4875.I4 M57 2011eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Historical perspective -- Concept and definition -- Unemployment, underemployment, and income insecurity -- Poverty, population explosion, hunger, and malnutrition -- Minimum wage -- Migration -- Caste hierarchy -- Land tenurial system -- Tribal land alienation -- Illiteracy -- Child labour and trafficking -- Devadasis and Yoginis -- Credit and indebtedness -- Globalization, state, and market -- Constitutional and legal provisions -- National policy and implementation of the program at the state level -- International instruments and initiatives -- Public interest litigation and judicial activism -- Role of voluntary organizations -- Role of trade unions of workers and employer's organizations -- Role of media and communication agencies -- In retrospect and prospect.
Description based on print version record.