Journal of
Development and Agricultural Economics

  • Abbreviation: J. Dev. Agric. Econ.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 2006-9774
  • DOI: 10.5897/JDAE
  • Start Year: 2009
  • Published Articles: 547

Article in Press

Informal sector and the perspective of informal workers in India

Jahangir Ahmad Bhat and Pushpender Yadav

The failure of providing meaningful employment is the catastrophic development failure of a country. India is a diverse economy encompasses of agriculture, handicraft, and wide range of modern industries and multitude of services sectors. These are categorised under private and public sectors but, unfortunately, neither the public nor the private sector is able to provide enough jobs for the expanding labor force. It is an informal sector which is increasingly recognized as an alternative source of employment; however the problems like job security, social security, stability of living, migration, child labour, and exploitation of working women and increased as much as an informal sector has grown. In this paper, we have taken the serious issue of Migration, Working Women in an Informal sector and Child Labour for the analysis. Further, we have dealt with an important concern of perception and problems of informal workers in India.

Keywords: Informal Sector, Informal Workers, Migration, Child labor, Women in the informal sector and Social Security.