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Human bondage : tracing its roots in India / Lakshmidhar Mishra.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mishra, L., 1941-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Peonage--India.
- Peonage.
- Poor--India--Social conditions--21st century.
- Poor.
- Land tenure--India.
- Land tenure.
- Social justice--India.
- Social justice.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xix, 487 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi ; London : SAGE, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book is about human freedom and dignity, the quintessence of human existence. It emphasizes how bonded labour is linked to issues like poverty, hunger, denial of minimum wage and the caste system.
- Contents:
- 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
- Devdasis and Yoginis
- Credit and indebtedness
- Globalization, state, and market
- Constitutional and legal provisions
- National policy and implementation of the programme 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786613235343
- 9788132119364
- 8132119363
- 9788132112969
- 8132112962
- 9781283235341
- 128323534X
- 9788132107705
- 8132107705
- OCLC:
- 747410663
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