Indian industrial labour today - An agenda for research

What emerged from the 23 stimulating papers presented at a conference on 'T he World of Indian Industrial Labour' at Amsterdam was the enormous complex ity and variety, the many worlds, of industrial labour. But these separate worlds cure not unconnected, they are closely joined by the dynamics of per vasive trends, especially liberalisation, deregulation and casualisation. T hrough the many questions raised, the conference implicitly sketched an age nda for further research.