ABSTRACT:
In underdeveloped countries, poverty is found to be more prevalent than unemployment. In fact, the poor generally cannot afford to be unemployed and get engeged in some self-employment activity if wage-employment is not available. Further those members of the poor households, who would not like to be employed otherwise may have to get employed: tender children, unwilling women and weak old parents. Thus, labour force get unduly augmented. Yet, poverty continues, suggesting that they are not effectively employment. There are other dimensions of effectiveness. The book deals with them as also with the ways poor people could be more effectively employed.
