India’s labour market: strikes and the need for reform | East Asia Forum

India’s labour market: strikes and the need for reform | East Asia Forum: Although these strikers belong to the organised segment of India’s labour market, which represents less than 10 per cent of its 450 million-odd labour force, some parallels can be drawn between this latest event and a series of strikes in the private, unorganised labour sector in recent years. An important common strand is contractualisation of labour, against which even the organised workers were protesting — despite the fact that contract workers are not part of the organised sector.