A study on Labour Activism in India

Abstract

Recent period the trade unions are losing it’s the plot by not focusing on workers’ empowerment issues especially for women workers, child labour and young workforce. On other side, at a time of reconciling the interest of labour with ease of doing business, the nation is looking to strike the right balance. However Indian labour unions were spellbound by political parties even while lacking government support in labour issues, amid ineffective labour laws and lack of opportunity for labour activism to become mature like in developed countries. At same the times labour reforms, restlessness about unionism of India and structural changes in labour market are seen as the signs of time. However despite being one of the three factors – labour, land and capital – of production process, everybody would admit that while dealing with labour issues, compared to the other two, India did little to make workers’ life decent in all these years since independence. Therefore the unions demand an integrated approach in labour reforms, targeted towards bringing uniformity in labour laws, extending universal applicability and towards overall improvement in labour standards