Discusses key questions, such as whether informal employment is replacing formal employment Presents a review of primary field based research in some other representative areas Compares the status of informal sector in pre and post liberalization days

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Ishita Mukhopadhyay is Professor in Department of Economics, University of Calcutta since1987. She is also Honororary Director, Women's Studies Research Centre, University of Calcutta since 2002. She is a researcher in Labour Economics and also supervised several doctoral dissertations on informal employment. She is a development economist who also carries on interdisciplinary exercise. She also focuses on gender inequality and other socioeconomic inequalities.

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Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Expansion and expectation: footloose-ness.- Chapter 3: Did we explain?.- Chapter 4: Alternative explanation from labour studies.- Chapter 5: Transition in Indian employment.- Chapter 6: Definitional Dilemma.- Chapter 7: Process of Informalisation of employment.- Chapter 8: Primary surveys of Kolkata Informal employment.- Chapter 9: Is Indian urban employment informalised?.- Chapter 10: Emergence of rural informal sector in India.- Chapter 11: Gendering Informality.- Chapter 12: Informal sector and capital.- Chapter 13: Workers, quality of life and role of capital.- Chapter 14: Is future to be seen?.