Employment in India

Ajit K. Ghose holds a Ph. D. in Economics from the University of Cambridge (UK). He worked as a Research Fellow at Queen Elizabeth House (Oxford, UK) before joining the International Labour Organisation (ILO) as a research economist at its Headquarters in Geneva (Switzerland) in 1979. He retired from the post of a Senior Economist at the ILO (Geneva) in 2008. During 2009-10, he was Visiting Senior Fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge (UK) and at the Centre for Development Studies, University of Cambridge (UK) where he taught a course for M. Phil in Development Studies. During 2015-2017, he was ICSSR National Fellow. Currently, he is Honorary Professor, Institute for Human Development, New Delhi (India). He has authored several books and many articles in professional journals, in areas such as agrarian transformation, globalisation, inequality, economic growth and development, employment and labour markets, and poverty and famines.

The book tells the hitherto untold story of evolution of employment conditions in India over a period of six decades beginning in the mid-1950s. It reviews, in a sharp and concise manner, the conditions of employment existing at the start of India's journey of development, the way the conditions have changed since then and the linkages between the changes in employment conditions and economic growth. It outlines the employment challenge that India is now confronted with and discusses the possibilities and ways of meeting the challenge.

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