Changing Employment Scenario in the Organised Manufacturing Industries: A Formal-Informal Dichotomy

The employment apparatus of our economy has been undergoing certain structural changes with the advent of globalization. The nature of employment is changing. A major chunk of newly created jobs in the organised manufacturing sector falls in the informal category. There has been an increasing use of informal workers. This has been accompanied by deterioration in the quality of jobs being created. The present paper examines the trends and implications of the contractualisation phenomenon in the organised manufacturing sector.