Focuses on how workers and small enterprises in India fare when faced with the processes of globalization and liberalization. This work raises questions about the experience of Indian development since the onset of economic reforms in 1991.
Jeemol Unni is professor of economics at the Gujarat Institute of Development Research, Ahmedabad, India. Her recent books are Informal Economy Centrestage: New Structures of Employment (2003), co-edited with Renana Jhabvala and Ratna M. Sudarshan, and Sustainable Development and Social Security: Role of the Non-Farm Sector (2000).Uma Rani holds a Ph.D in Economics from the University of Hyderabad. She specializes in labor and institutional economics, and has recently joined the International Institute of Labour Studies, ILO, Geneva as a researcher.
