Health, Safety and Well-Being of Workers in the Informal Sector in India : Lessons for Emerging Economies /: Lessons for Emerging Economies. ([2019])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Sigamani Panneer, Sanghmitra S. Acharya, Nagarajan Sivakami, Editors.
• Editors: Panneer, Sigamani; Acharya, Sanghmitra; Sivakami, Nagarajan
• Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Understanding and Addressing the Inequities affecting the workers in Informal Sector -- 3. Health, Safety & Well-being of sanitation workers; realities of historical exclusion and livelihoods -- 4. Health, Safety and Well-Being of Women Workers in Informal Economy: Evidences from Construction Work in New Delhi, India -- 5. Women in the Labour Market -- 6. Women workers in shoe factory and perception to willingness to pay (wtp) for social insurance study in Ambur Taluk in Vellore Districts -- 7. Health, safety and wellbeing of women workers in unorganised sector/informal economy -- 8. Dispossessed and disposed: the plight of Agricultural workforce -- 9. Health Concerns of Women Street Vendors: Challenges and Prospects -- 10. The Political Economy of Demonetization: Challenges and Prospects for Informal Economy with Special Reference to Agriculture -- 11. Financial and Social Security for Older Persons in the Indian Informal Economy -- 12. Health, Social Security and Income Generation of Labourers in Informal Sector: Primary Data Evidence from Textile Firms of Tirupur -- 13. Demonetization and the Informal Economy: A highroad to formalism or a free fall to destruction? -- 14. Health, Safety & Well-Being of the Manual Scavengers: Social Exclusion Perspective -- 15. Public Health Outcomes through District level System Integration among Inter-State Migrants in Kerala -- 16. Legal issues/Acts and provisions related to informal sector in India-A Case of Karnataka -- 17. Descriptive Analysis of the Occupational Hazards Associated with Beedi Workers in India -- 18. The Social Constructs of Surrogacy as experienced by Surrogate Mothers -- 19. Encountering Alienation: A situational review of Inter-state Migrant workers from the North Indian States in Kerala -- 20. Quality of Life of Transgender Workers in the Unorganized sector -- 21. A study on Quality of Life among Individuals with Special Needs Working in the Unorganized Sector.
• Publisher Details: Singapore : Springer
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (296 pages)
• Subjects: 658.38; Industrial safety -- India; Informal sector (Economics) -- India; Industrial safety; Informal sector (Economics); India; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789811384219; 9811384215
• Notes: Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 12, 2019).
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