Chapter 23

Evolution and Growth of Social Security Legislation in India

Chapter Objectives

This chapter will enable students to:

  1. Explain the factors leading to the adoption of social security measures for industrial workers in the country
  2. Describe the contingencies covered under various social security laws in the country
  3. Understand the role of ILO in creating international standards in the field of social security
  4. Understand the basic features of social security system in some developed countries
  5. Explain the main Recommendations of the second National Commission on Labour (2002) relating to social security and modifications in the existing laws

What is Social Security?

Lord William Beveridge, who considered ‘want’, ‘disease’, ‘ignorance’, ...

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