期刊名称：Just Labour : A Canadian Journal of Work and Society
电子版ISSN：1705-1436
出版年度：2009
卷号：14
出版社：York University
摘要：As in many other countries, market reform has hurt labour. The losses for labour have been particularly immense in the (more patently neoliberal) post-1991 period, with a painful withering away of the few, limited privileges it had earlier secured within the constraints of Indian capitalism. Besides a more aggressively pro-capital state, organized labour has had to contend with an acute contraction of formal employment, which has run down its already-meagre numbers. Labour has also been affected by another trend associated with the 1990s, namely, the rise of religion and caste-based politics. While the growth of identity politics is an outcome of democratic expansion in India, and thus should not be viewed as an inherently negative development, it has served to weaken labour's already-tenuous unity as a political movement
