Contract labour case study covering Maruti Manesar incident analysis, increasing contractual labor deployment to reduce costs, contractual workers getting only quarter of regular worker wages, National Labour Institute study (55% workforce on contract, poorly paid), dissatisfaction reasons, law permitting contract workers to form unions, Joint Action Committee urging government amendment for Rs.10,000 minimum wages, counterargument (strikes and lockouts decreasing, contract labor enables large workforce, brings employability/flexibility/specialization, enables industrial competitiveness, offers large-scale employment generation), debate on whether contract labor is problem or solution.
