Human bondage : tracing its roots in India / Lakshmidhar Mishra.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Historical perspective -- Concept and definition -- Unemployment, underemployment, and income insecurity -- Poverty, population explosion, hunger, and malnutrition -- Minimum wage -- Migration -- Caste hierarchy -- Land tenurial system -- Tribal land alienation -- Illiteracy -- Child labour and trafficking -- Devadasis and Yoginis -- Credit and indebtedness -- Globalization, state, and market -- Constitutional and legal provisions -- National policy and implementation of the program at the state level -- International instruments and initiatives -- Public interest litigation and judicial activism -- Role of voluntary organizations -- Role of trade unions of workers and employer's organizations -- Role of media and communication agencies -- In retrospect and prospect.

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This book is about human freedom and dignity, the quintessence of human existence. It emphasizes how bonded labour is linked to issues like poverty, hunger, denial of minimum wage and the caste system.

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