Title: India's manufacturing informal workers: measuring the decent work index property

Authors: Dhirendra Bahadur Singh; Ravi Kumar Gupta

Addresses: Humanities and Management Science Department, Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India ' Humanities and Management Science Department, Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India

Abstract: In countries like India, which are dominated by informal employment; it becomes crucial to achieve decent working conditions for the personal development of individuals and economic development. This article attempts to investigate the decent work condition of manufacturing informal workers of the central region of Uttar Pradesh, India, by constructing micro-level security sub-indices and one individual-level composite decent work index based on seven work-based security dimensions also used in People Security Surveys (PSS) by ILO. Further, it evaluates the impact of supply-side variables on the working conditions of workers using OLS regression. Findings indicate that only 25% of total workers were working with satisfactory decent work status. And ineffectiveness of qualification in improving decent work conditions in the absence of skill-based learning. It also shows poor working conditions for third-party contract workers. The study strongly suggests vocalising education and better implementation of labour laws to improve informal workers' working conditions.

Keywords: informal sector; decent work index property; security indicators; manufacturing sector; supply-side factors; India.

DOI: 10.1504/IJIPM.2024.138329

International Journal of Intellectual Property Management, 2024 Vol.14 No.3, pp.274 - 299

Received: 26 Sep 2022
Accepted: 13 Dec 2022
Published online: 01 May 2024 *

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