Recap

Key points of the chapter

• All persons engaged in economic activities, and therefore contributing to gross national product, are workers.
• About two-fifths of the country's total population is engaged in economic activities.
• Men, and rural men in particular, form the largest section of India's workforce.
• Most Indian workers are self-employed; casual wage labourers and regular salaried employees together make up less than half the workforce.
• About three-fifths of the workforce depends on agriculture and allied activities as its main livelihood.
• In recent years the growth of employment has slowed down.
• In the post-reform period new employment opportunities have appeared in the service sector, but these jobs are mostly in the informal sector and are largely casual in nature.
• The government is the country's major formal sector employer. …