Table of 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
  • 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.