Industrial Regulations and Contractualisation in Organised Manufacturing Industry Since the Early 1990s:

A State Level Analysis Using ASI Data

Abstract

In the post reforms decade of the 1990s, there have been many changes that have dotted India’s economic landscape. Among them, declining quality of employment growth has been a very noticeable phenomenon. Contractualisation of the workers in the manufacturing industry is a matter of grave policy concern from the perspective of inclusive growth. It has been observed that contractualisation has intensified particularly after 1994. This paper attempts to examine how industrial regulations have uniformly contributed to the contractualisation phenomenon across major states in India. Was it due to the policies that were pursued in the pre-reform period (1950-1990) or only an outcome of the New Economic Policy of 1991?