Anand Swamy and Tirthankar Roy on Law and the Economy
Ideas of India
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The Harshness of Labor Law in India
One of the early labor contracts, which made escaping a contract a criminal act. The employers of ay plantation testate kers liked it because they thought that these people would escape and never turn up again. But then if you look at the origin of this law, it's not exactly colonialism. It's coming from a british tradition where,. again, labor contracts were covered by criminal or penal law for a long time.
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