10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CASUAL LABOUR»
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casual labour in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
casual labour and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Casual labour: the unemployment question in the port ...
This study examines the changing nature of work and the work force in the British port transport industry since the 19th century.
Gordon Ashton Phillips, Noel Whiteside, 1985
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Hollow Work, Hollow Society: Globalization and the
Casual ...
This book explains the contemporary casualization of work and the shift to part-time scheduling as integral to global economic restructuring, showing how this movement is tied to a business agenda aimed at improving corporate profitability ...
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Casual Labour at the Docks
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
H. A. (Henry Adolphus) Mess, Ratan Tata Foundation, 2011
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Footloose
Labour: Working in India's Informal Economy
This penetrating anthropological study of India's working poor examines the lives of migrant workers from two villages in south Gujarat who depend on casual work.
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The Dynamics of Hired Farm
Labour: Constraints and Community ...
Constraints and Community Responses A. Vandeman, J. Larson, J. Runyan.
Casual labour A third category of labour is 'casual' hired labour, i.e. workers
employed only on a casual basis, either part-time throughout the year or
seasonally.
A. Vandeman, J. Larson, J. Runyan, 2002
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Saving Seeds: The Economics of Conserving Crop Genetic ...
needs hand-scarification, costing $14.8 ($3.7 X 4 days of casual labour), and half
of the forage legumes (3500 accessions) need machine-scarification costing
$130 ($3.7 X 35 days of casual labour). Land preparation. The station operation ...
Bonwoo Koo, Philip G. Pardey, Brian Wright, 2004
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Struggling for Leadership: Antwerp-Rotterdam Port ...
Casual labour: employer or worker strategy? It is a commonplace to identify dock-
work with casual labour. The unpredictable supply of cargo to be handled and
the omnipresent surplus of labour created a pattern of employment characterized
...
Reginald Loyen, Erik Buyst, Greta Devos, 2002
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Planning Commission Reports on
Labour and Employment
2.45 The increase in the share of casual labour in total employment is sometimes
regarded as an indication of deteriorating employment quality since this type of
employment is not associated with job security or other employment benefits.
India. Planning Commission, Raj Kapila, Uma Kapila, 2002
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Results of socio-economic survey in coastal areas of Guyana
On an average the larger farms (10 acres and more) employ a larger amount of
permanent and casual labour, but are less involved in labour exchange. It is
interesting to note that all the large farms in the EBD area employ permanent and
...
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London
labour and the London poor
The apprentices grow up and become labourers, and so the trade is glutted with
workmen, and casual labour is the consequence. This apprentice system is the
great bane of the printer's trade. Country printers take an undue number of boys
to ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CASUAL LABOUR»
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casual labour is used in the context of the following news items.
44 lakh families subsist on casual labour
"People who don't have a fixed source of income generally get into the casual labour. The trend increases as the yield per acre is very low and ... «Times of India, Jul 15»
Landlessness is higher among Dalits but more adivasis are 'deprived'
... manual casual labour compared to the Dalits or Scheduled Castes. ... ST households are dependent on manual casual labour as a source of ... «The Indian Express, Jul 15»
8-10% Growth, Anti-poverty Measures Needed: Jaitley on Census
... leads to the greatest amount of deprivation is being a landless household that derives a major part of its income from manual casual labour. «The New Indian Express, Jul 15»
City villages lowest in cultivation, highest in cell phone connections
Besides, 17.29 per cent of the population are doing casual labour, 6.66 per cent domestic service, 0.34 per cent rag picking and 2.89 per cent ... «Chandigarh Tribune, Jul 15»
Socio economic survey: Three-fourth of rural India's highest income …
Land is key: Of the 17.91 crore rural households surveyed, 51.14 percent of families have manual casual labour as main source of income. «Firstpost, Jul 15»
Two-third families earn less than Rs 5000 a month in Odisha
Around 23% families in the state depend on agriculture, 28.12% on casual labour and 3% on domestic work. Around 0.26% rural families are ... «Times of India, Jul 15»
Illiteracy, unemployment bog down Telangana
As per the census, the State's rural population remains highly dependent on manual casual labour as 49.58 per cent of the population is ... «The Hindu, Jul 15»
Outperforms AP
Also, the number of landless households which are highly dependent on manual casual labour was 34.55 per cent in Telangana, in AP it ... «The Hindu, Jul 15»
Kerala income inequality revealed in census
Slightly over 40 per cent of the families in Kerala's rural areas are landless, and they survive by taking up manual casual labour. This is higher ... «gulfnews.com, Jul 15»
Casual labour key to state`s rural economy | Kochi NYOOOZ
The household income in Kerala`s rural areas mainly comes from casual labour, be it in construction activity or other public works department ... «NYOOOZ, Jul 15»
