Employment and labour market in North-East India:

Structure and patterns of employment in North-East India
Work, employment and labour in industries
Migration and labour mobility
Employment diversification

1. Labour and the labour market in North-east India: a historical exploration
Virginius Xaxa 19

2. Changing trajectories of economic growth and employment in North East India: an empirical assessment 39
Anjan Chakrabarti

3. Structure and quality of employment in North East India : a socio-religious analysis
Ajaya Kumar Naik and Nitin Tagade 73

4. Women’s employment in North-East India: trends and patterns
Bornali Borah
5. Beyond standard outcomes: the state of employment and labour in the tea industry of Assam
Debulal Saha, Rajdeep Singha and Padmini Sharma 151

6. Work, control and mobility in the manufacturing industry: a study of the cement industry in Assam
Piyali Bhowmick 175

7. Fostering employment in the handloom sector in the North-east through cluster development: a case study of Mizoram 193
Rama Ramswamy

8. From craft to industry: understanding the dynamics of handloom weaving in Manipur 224
Otojit Kshetrimayum
9. Employment potential of migrant workers in Meghalya: an empirical exploration 263
Jajati Keshari Parida

10. Out migration and labour mobility: case studies from Assam 284
Sneashish Mitra

11. Rural non-farm employment in North-East India: a temporal and spatial analysis 319
Bhagirathi Panda

12 Trends, composition and determinants of rural non-farm employment in Assam and its implication for rural income distribution 345
Anamika Das

13 Employment diversification in Tripura 369
Rajdeep Singha

Index 390