The Textile Industry in India
Changing Trends and Employment Challenges
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ISBN:
9780199469352
Publication date:
09/12/2016
Hardback
272 pages
Price: 850.00 INR
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ISBN:
9780199469352
Publication date:
09/12/2016
Hardback
272 pages
Bindu Oberoi
The book analyses the determinants of domestic demand of the textiles and challenges the general perception that the growth of the industry was primarily driven by an expansion in exports of textile products. It argues that structural changes such as inter-fibre and inter-sectoral shifts and capacity expansion involving modernization have contributed to decline in quantity as well as quality of employment generated by the industry.
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Bindu Oberoi
Description
The textile industry is one of the oldest in the country, going back several centuries. The industry experienced recession from the mid-1960s to the 1980s. However, this trend is reversed after the early 1990s when domestic demand for textiles products as well as exports increased substantially. What factors have contributed to the growth of the industry? What kind of changes have occurred in the structure of exports of the industry and what are their implications? Has the growth of this labour-intensive industry generated adequate employment? This book addresses such debates and examines the process of growth of India’s textile
industry, focusing on its performance on the employment front since the 1980s.
Using macro-level data, the book analyses determinants of domestic demand and challenges the general
perception that the growth of the industry was primarily driven by an expansion in exports of textile products. It argues that structural changes such as inter-fibre and inter-sectoral shifts and capacity expansion involving modernization have contributed to decline in quantity as well as quality of employment generated by the industry.
About the Author
Bindu Oberoi teaches Economics in Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi, India.
Bindu Oberoi
Table of contents
List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Trends in Domestic Demand and Their Implications
2. Availability and Cost of Raw Materials
3. Exports: The New Driver of Growth?
4. Structural Changes in the Indian Textile Industry
5. The Employment Fall Out
6. Concluding Observations
Appendices
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Bindu Oberoi
Bindu Oberoi
Description
The textile industry is one of the oldest in the country, going back several centuries. The industry experienced recession from the mid-1960s to the 1980s. However, this trend is reversed after the early 1990s when domestic demand for textiles products as well as exports increased substantially. What factors have contributed to the growth of the industry? What kind of changes have occurred in the structure of exports of the industry and what are their implications? Has the growth of this labour-intensive industry generated adequate employment? This book addresses such debates and examines the process of growth of India’s textile
industry, focusing on its performance on the employment front since the 1980s.
Using macro-level data, the book analyses determinants of domestic demand and challenges the general
perception that the growth of the industry was primarily driven by an expansion in exports of textile products. It argues that structural changes such as inter-fibre and inter-sectoral shifts and capacity expansion involving modernization have contributed to decline in quantity as well as quality of employment generated by the industry.
About the Author
Bindu Oberoi teaches Economics in Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi, India.
Table of contents
List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Trends in Domestic Demand and Their Implications
2. Availability and Cost of Raw Materials
3. Exports: The New Driver of Growth?
4. Structural Changes in the Indian Textile Industry
5. The Employment Fall Out
6. Concluding Observations
Appendices
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
