CURRICULUM VITAE

Major/Important Publications

1. (Jointly) 'Girl Children in the Care Economy: Domestics in West Bengal', (2008), Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.XLIII, No.48, Bombay, India 2.(Jointly) 'Skilled Labour Specificity and the Pure Theory of International Trade: An Application to the Indian Information Technology Sector', (2008), Journal of Economic Assymetries, Vol.5, No. 2, AFP Press,Toronto, Canada. 3. 'Docile Oriental Women and the Organized Labour: A Case Study of the Indian Garment Manufacturing Industry'(2008), Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Sage Publications,Los Angeles/London/New Delhi/Singapore. 4. 'Growing Services:An Analysis of the State Level Data'(2006), Economic and Political Weekly, Bombay, India. 5 'Women Workers, Entrepreneurs and Behavioral Rationality: A case of Indian garment manufacturing’, 2005, Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Vol.48, No.1.pp.101-113. 6. ‘Expansion of Markets and Women Workers: A case of Indian Garment Manufacturing’, 2004, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol XXXIX, No. 46. 7. 'Industry: Policy and Performance', (2003), in C. H Hanumantha Rao and S. Mahendra Dev edited, Andhra Pradesh Development: Economic Reforms and Challenges Ahead, CESS and Manohar Publishers. 8.‘Energy and Labour Use in Industry: A Study of Andhra Pradesh’, 2003, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XXXVIII, No. 36, pp. 3801- 3805. 9.Work Organisation and Employment Contracts: Technological Modernisation in Textile Firms, 2002, , Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.XXXVII, No.8, pp.743 - 749. 10.Labour Market under Trade Liberalisation: Issues Concerning Re-allocation, 1999, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.XXXIV, No.48, pp.M163 - M168

International Seminars

1.Presented a paper titled 'Comparison of Labour Regulations in Canada and India' in a seminar at the University of Calgary,Canada in July 2000. 2. ‘Emergence of Decentralized Bargaining in the Indian Textiles’ Presented at The Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands in November 2005. 3. 'The forms of collective bargaining in the organized and unorganized sectors of Indian textiles and garment manufacturing, presented at IFREDE, Universite Montesqieu-Bordeaux IV, France in December 2005. 4.‘Growing Services in India: An Intersectoral Analysis of State Level Data’, has been accepted for the XVth Annual General Conference on “Contemporary Issues in Development Economics” held at Jadavpur University in 9-10 December, 2005. 5. 'Docile Oriental Women and the Organized Labour: A case study of Indian Garment Manufacturing Sector', 3-5 November 2006 at the end Symposium of IDPAD jointly organized by The ISS, The Hague and The CESS, Hyderabad. 6. 'State Business Relations in three Indian States', paper presented in a Workshop on State and Business Relations in Africa and India, Nairobi, Kenya, July, 2008.

Major Projects Handled

Expansion of Markets and Women Workers: A case of Hyderabad city. Funded by the UNIFEM, UNDP

Post Doctoral Experience

1. Visiting Fellow at the University of Alberta and Calgory in 2000 under the Shastry Indo-Canadian Fellow Programme. 2. Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Nether Lands in 2005 under the IDPAD, EOS Programme. 3. Before joining CESS as Associate Professor, worked as Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, India, for about two years in 2006-07

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