Mandatory Retirement Savings in the Presence of an Informal Labor Market

During the nationwide lockdown as part of the state response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the predicament of interstate migrant laborers in India, caught in crowded cities without means of livelihood and basic resources needed to sustain life, gained national and international attention. This article explores the context of the current migrant crisis through the historical trajectories and political roots of internal migration in India and its relationship with the urban informal labor market and the structural determinants of precarious employment. We argue that the both the response to the pandemic and the disproportionate impact on migrant laborers are reflections and consequences of an established pattern of neglect and poor accountability of the state toward the employment and living conditions of migrant workers who toil precariously in the informal labor market.

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Female Human Resource in the Korean Informal Labor Market

The Women s Studies ◽

10.33949/tws.2009..1.003 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 76 (1) ◽

pp. 71-109

Author(s):

Taehee Kwon ◽

조동훈 ◽

Cho Joonmo

Keyword(s):

Labor Market ◽

Human Resource ◽

Informal Labor ◽

Informal Labor Market

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We Do Not Prefer Cripples, but They Can Earn Full Wages

No Right to Be Idle ◽

10.5149/northcarolina/9781469624891.003.0005 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Sarah F. Rose

Keyword(s):

Labor Market ◽

Working Class ◽

Working Life ◽

Ford Motor Company ◽

Injured Workers ◽

Informal Labor ◽

Henry Ford ◽

Informal Labor Market ◽

Almost All

Chapter 4 opens by investigating the ways in which working-class communities and workers had traditionally understood disability: as an anticipated, if feared, outcome of working life, but not as a cause for stigma. While bodily modifications such as missing fingers, crushed limbs, blinded eyes, or weakened lungs often brought a loss of skill and income, injured workers continued to work, often in the informal labor market. Mechanization and the drive for efficiency, however, provided employers with new notions of what made a good worker. With the striking exception of the Ford Motor Company, almost all major industrial employers began to believe that a modern, mechanized, and efficient workplace required employees with intact, interchangeable bodies. Henry Ford, however, demonstrated that, if carefully handled, mechanization could actually expand the range of employable bodies.

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