The programme endeavours to sensitize the participants about the inequalities prevalent in the world of work and the challenges faced by women in the labour market. It would also enable the participants in developing an understanding about the existing legal instruments and international labour standards for ensuring equality at workplace and promoting workers’ rights based on a model of social justice. The
programme also aims to address the larger questions on intersection of paid work and unpaid unpaid/care work and recognition of care as a right that need to be incorporated into the policy framework for facilitating women’s employment and sustenance in the labour market.

Generating more and better quality of employment is a common challenge faced by the countries world over. The challenge is more pronounced in case of developing countries with large informal sector and with problems of unemployment and underemployment. To face these challenges, governments are putting increasing emphasis on enhancing the skills of its people in general and that of workers in particular to increase their employability and to facilitate them to get decent employment.

Employment, in its quantitative and more pertinently in its qualitative aspects, is one of the central concerns of public policy. While employment creation remains a crucial long term policy goal, it is now emerging as one of the most important policy instruments for tackling economic slowdown. Employment is not only a macroeconomic phenomena – its importance and social and individual level is far greater. Employment remains the foremost means for providing social security and tackling insecurities at the individual level. It is in this context that this programme addresses various dimensions related to
generation of quality employment as a means to achieve the national goal of sustainable and inclusive growth.

To provide an understanding on globalisation and its impact on labour from an interdisciplinary perspective in general and sociological perspective in particular.

To strengthen the understanding of various Social Science Research Methods

The programme aims at empowering Rural women organizers from Central Trade Unions

The course aims to facilitate youth to work

This programme aims at enhancing the understanding of the linkages between migration and development. It also aims at developing the capacities of researchers and policy makers towards explicating the emerging issues in migration, especially in terms of research and policy concerns.