A Structural Analysis of Indian Contract Labor Laws

This paper attempts a structural analysis of some aspects of the Indian labor laws applicable to the contract workers based on the fundamental concepts of opposites and co-relatives developed by Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld in his two famous articles published with the same name: Some Fundamental Legal Conceptions as Applied in Judicial Reasoning, published in Yale Law Journal in the years 1913 and 1917 respectively. The structural strengths and problems of these laws have been discussed based on the understanding emerged whilst reading and analyzing these statutes per se, and not on implementation issues.