Synopsis Significant changes have taken place in the Indian labour market after the initiation of liberalization, globalisation and privatization policies in 1991. In this context, it becomes important to examine the controversial issue of labour flexibility vis-?-vis economic liberalisation. While in India there have been some attempts to study labour flexibility at the macro level, very few have been made at the micro or enterprise level. And even if there have been, the scope of the studies has not been extended to the wider national labour market in order to understand dhow liberalisatioin policies have impacted on the labour market and labour relations. This book overcomes this limitation as it is based on a comprehensive labour flexibility survey of more than 1300 firms scattered across ten states and nine important manufacturing industries, undertaken in 1999. The book examines the trends in the Indian labour market in recent years; changes in employment and the factors governing them; the extent of employment and wage flexibilities; as also the impact of trade unions on wages and industrial relations. The book will be useful for all those interested not only in evaluating the impact of economic liberalization and globalisation on the quantity and quality of employment and industrial relations system but also in evolving optimal labour policies in the Indian context.