Documentation of Labour Rights Violations in India

[Informalisation and Labour Rights - Working Paper]

Automobile industry is one the sectors that has undergone a metamorphosis with the advent of new business and manufacturing practices in the light of liberalisation and globalisation. Also, in this sector a sizeable number of the workforce is involved in production activities, and they are normally at the receiving end of unfair labour practices. This working paper tries to examine selectively the circumstances of labour rights violation in the automobile sector in India, in the age of globalisation and liberalisation. Within the broad parameters of labour process and labour rights, this paper discusses the situation of job permanency, unionisation efforts, and industrial relations in auto sector, as also the overall situation of wage and working conditions, social security, and welfare measures available to the workers in this sector.