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The Territorial Reform and its Impact to Demographic Profile of New Municipalities in Albania

The territorial reform of 2014, according to which there is a new re -composition of municipalities does not imply changes in the population at the county level, but is accompanied by drastic changes of the population at the municipal level. Meanwhile the population at the national and regional level has declined, the population in the new administrative units has been increased and almost "doubled" in some cases due to the merger of the former municipalities with the rural areas. This situation unsurprisingly has brought the multiplication of problems related to the good management of natural, property and human resources of the new administrative local units. Demographic change is becoming a key challenges and affecting all countries and developing economies. Fertility rates are falling, the population is ageing, youth unemployment is a challenge and the complexity of urban-rural shrinkage is posing numerous challenges for industrial development, job creation and sustainable development agendas. Strategic solutions cannot be based on addressing one of these factors alone but need to take into account the interplay of these elements within a particular local area of development (urban or rural) (OECD, 2011a).Since demographic processes are complex in nature, the solutions to their problems naturally "affect" various aspects of economic and social life, such as the regional labor markets, spatial planning of the territory, the consumption model of goods and services, always in response to structural demographic changes of the population. The object of study of the article is the analysis of demographic changes of the population and their impact on the territory at the regional level as well as the evaluation of regional policies in response to these changes. Demographic statistics will be used as a source of information to analyze the demographic profile of the new municipalities and furthermore the differences between regions, raising the awareness of policymakers on the necessity of using demographic data in policy making of sustainable regional development.
 
 Received: 22 September 2022 / Accepted: 24 November 2022 / Published: 20 December 2022

Sources of financing for increasing the competitiveness of the food Industry in Azerbaijan

The state policy of the government of Azerbaijan is aimed at the sectoral diversification of the economy of the country, in which the food industry occupies a significant place. Since for a long time there has been a raw materials-based model of the economy in Azerbaijan, investment funds have not been not directed to increase the competitiveness of the food industry in order to operate successfully in the global market. The main aim of the research is to investigate the opportunity of using various sources of financing, which are required to improve the Azerbaijani food industry competitivity. The methods of summary and grouping, analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction, were used in order to reach the goal. It was shown that the food industry in the state could be improved by increasing the climate investment and the share of outside and joint financing sources. During the research conducted it was determined that over the past 15 years, the government of Azerbaijan has implemented more than 70 national and industry specific programs. The work separately points out the State Programs I and II on the economic and social development of the regions, which were introduced in the period from 2004 to 2013. For increasing the food sector competitivity in Azerbaijan, additional financial resources, which reached $65 billion in 2012, were attracted in the country; loans to strengthen the competitiveness of the food industry increased by 9.7 times in the period between 2006 and 2021, and the investment volume will exceed $3 billion in the result. The positive impact of the measures, which were taken, was reflected in the creation of additional 1.2 million jobs in the food industry in the Republic of Azerbaijan. The study results showed that internal sources were the largest share in the financing of the food industry in the country, while the due attention was not paid to the development of international cooperation aimed at increasing external and joint sources of financing. The practical significance of the results of the study presented in this article lies in its providing of the basis for subsequent areas of study of the topic under consideration, as well as for the development of state programs on the improving of the food sector in Azerbaijan

An Analysis of Indian Hospitality Sector using ABCD Framework

Purpose: The travel industry significantly supports India's economic development. Furthermore, in a country as different in scenes and culture as ours, the main normal travel and the travel industry is as essential as it seems today. The Indian vacation and lodging sectors have emerged as two main development engines in India's administrative regions. Given the country's diverse biological makeup, varied landscapes, and several locations of consistently high quality, India's travel business has significant potential. Like many other countries, India relies heavily on the travel industry for foreign trade. The ABCD structure is a powerful method of industry analysis for comprehending both the benefits and drawbacks of the jobs in the travel industry and the factors that support and hinder the successful operation of the given firm. Design/Methodology/Approach: This post focuses on the advantages, benefits, constraints, and disadvantages of the Indian tourism industry. Details about the Indian Pharmaceutical Sector are included in the material for the equivalent that is distributed. In addition to the ABCD Framework, other tools for industry analysis, like the PESTLE analysis, are used in the review based on material gathered from websites, diaries, articles, and online journals. Focused on industry-related items, took into account, evaluated, and compared various aspects of the lodging business Findings/Result: The advantages of the travel industry to the economy and local people of the nation have been numerous and changed. The business appreciates many benefits, the primary among them being the inflow of FDI, alongside progress in the, generally speaking, country's G.D.P., which has added to its development. The fundamental hindrance of the business is its unfavourable effect on the biology and over-commercialization of the business. Originality/Value: The ABCD model provides an overall view of the business and is used in this work to study the Indian tourism industry. Paper Type: Research Case Study based on industry analysis.

Working-Class Germans in the Salt City: Syracuse, New York, 1860–1916

Working-Class Germans in the Salt CitySyracuse, New York, 1860–1916 Daniel Koch (bio) The central city of the Empire State was once the home of thousands of Germans, the largest contingent in a multicultural, multilingual urban melting pot. Syracuse was one of the key industrial cities of the United States during the Civil War era and into the twentieth century. Like other American cities, its industrial might was built on immigrant labor, much of which was German. Yet, there has not been a historical study of German Syracuse since the editors of the German-language Syracuse Union newspaper produced a book called Geschichte der Deutschen in Syracuse und Onondaga County (The history of the Germans in Syracuse and Onondaga County) in 1897. Like the tomes of county history produced around the same time, the Geschichte focuses on the great and the good. Its subtitle gives its intention away—Nebst Kurzen Biographien von Beamten and Hervorragenden Buergern (With short biographies of officials and prominent citizens). The book is handsomely illustrated with portraits of eminent German Americans who achieved great success in their careers, and who also gave back to their communities by supporting churches, schools, and charities. These leaders were a source of pride at a time when "great man" status was the aim to which young men were taught to aspire. But the men (and they are all men) whose portraits adorn the Geschichte were exceptions. Most German immigrants worked in industrial jobs, living in what urban accommodation they could afford. They clustered in immigrant neighborhoods with other Germans but also often in mixed communities with other groups of immigrants—Irish, particularly in the early decades, and Italian and Polish in the later part of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This article seeks to expose a little-studied German community, going beyond the limited great-man focused nineteenth-century sources that exist. Both the Geschichte and Dwight H. Bruce's Memorial History of Syracuse (1891), the two most detailed views of the city in the late nineteenth century, portray a highly positive view of a flourishing German [End Page 361] American community that exemplified civic virtue.1 Historians have maintained that Germans were widely accepted, even celebrated, in American society between the Civil War and the outbreak of World War I.2 The purpose here is not to try to undermine this view; indeed, the records from Syracuse in this period clearly bear it out. Nor is it to write a labor history of Germans in Syracuse. It is rather to bring back to life some of what was left out or swept under the carpet in building this narrative of German success in America. This article seeks to answer why these omissions occurred and argues that it was at least partially related to pervasive racialist discourse in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Furthermore, studying Syracuse's German community enables us to reconstruct the urban geography of a nineteenth-century industrial center and take a new look at a lost German neighborhood in a key American city. Syracuse was a relatively late city to emerge in New York State. The land upon which it is built was part of the Onondaga Reservation, a 64,000-acre tract that was exempt from white settlement by the terms of the 1788 treaty between the State of New York and the Onondaga Nation.3 Syracuse is still known as the salt city due to the briny waters that flow into Onondaga Lake, from which salt can be made using a boiling process. Water from Syracuse's salt springs, an 1834 map boasted, produced nearly seven times as much salt as the same quantity of sea water. "Solar salt" was also produced by allowing the water to evaporate in the sun and raking in the remaining salt. Subsequent exploitative treaties with the state chipped away at the Onondaga Reservation (other Haudenosaunee people in New York experienced the same in the so-called treaty period between the 1790s and 1820s). The land upon which Syracuse was built was transferred first to the state and then sold off to private buyers. Settlers poured in, mainly from New England, in the early decades...

A Study on Airline Operations and Corporate Social Responsibilities of Air Italy

The world is becoming more connected, with the internet bringing us closer together, 24- hour news allowing us to see what is happening around the world, and more efficient planes allowing us to travel from place to place. Over the next decade, China will overtake the US as the highest source of passengers, flying to, from, and within the country, potentially rising to over 1 billion. Even if there is a downturn in productivity and restrictions in trade agreements, globally there should still be more than 6 billion passengers every year by the end of the next decade, significantly higher than today. Passengers numbering in the billions will continue to use planes, and many millions of new fliers will experience it for the first time, eventually becoming loyal customers. Job Growth: Job growth is also increasing Aviation industry growth. An increase in passengers will have a knock-on effect of stimulating more jobs in the Aviation industry. There are already 65 million jobs supported by the industry, but even more, will be needed to handle the volume of new flights. The IATA surveyed growth in the Aviation sector and found that the majority of respondents predict growth in ground operations, cabin crew, and customer service personnel jobs over the next two years, which will allow the industry to maintain its high standards. The 10 million jobs directly in the Aviation sector are around 4.4 times more productive than the average job around the world, and there will be millions more Aviation jobs created over the next decade. Supersonic Flight: New Aviation technology is emerging all the time, making flights faster, more efficient, and a more enjoyable experience for customers.

America's Other Automakers: A History of the Foreign-Owned Automotive Sector in the United States

Timothy J. Minchin makes a compelling case for examining the history of foreign-owned auto manufacturers in the United States. America's Other Automakers explores the recent history of Japanese, German, and Korean producers and how they reshaped the industry and labor relations in the American South. He does an admirable job of documenting what the planning, economic incentives, gubernatorial leadership, and new industrial jobs meant for communities. Charting the labor and racial tensions surrounding the plants, Minchin incorporates interviews with workers and members of the United Auto Workers (Uaw). He argues that automakers, state leaders, and communities experienced conflict and lingering tensions around land use, economic incentives, race, and labor that were routinely ignored by the media. After introducing the historical precedents, Minchin organizes the remainder of the book into seven case studies by manufacturer and location. These are chronological, staring with the creation of Honda of America Manufacturing in 1977. The first three chapters cover Honda, Nissan's entry into Tennessee, and Toyota's plant in Kentucky. Chapters cover both the efforts of the governors to attract Japanese manufacturers as well as anti-Japanese racism. While Minchin might have provided more context on anti-Asian popular culture in the 1980s, he shines a light on racism that the local press glossed over. The second half of the book moves into the 1990s and charts the establishment of German car makers in South Carolina and Alabama, as well as Hyundai's move to gain market share by opening a plant in Alabama.

Exploratory Survey of Australian SMEs: an Investigation into the Barriers and Opportunities Associated with Circular Economy.

Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) account for 97.4% of all businesses in Australia and, contribute, by revenue, 32% to the country's economy. In the last decade, Australian SMEs have become increasingly aware of the importance of sustainability and need to shift away from a linear to circular economy (CE). Since 2019, there has been considerable growth on CE adoption research in SMEs, but empirical research examining Australian SMEs has yet to be undertaken. This study has used a survey and aims to understand the enablers and barriers of CE adoption in Australian SMEs. The research addresses three specific research questions- What are the barriers that impact CE adoption in Australian SMEs?; What enablers facilitate CE adoption in Australian SMEs?; and What is the effect of industry type, geographic location and job roles on enablers and barriers identification for CE adoption in Australian SMEs? Based on 352 responses from the survey of Australian SMEs, the paper identifies and analyses the enablers and barriers that these organizations face as they transition towards circular economy. The impact that location, industry sector and the role respondents undertake within the organization provides some interesting insights into how Australian SMEs are managing the process of adoption of CE. The research demonstrates that there is an overwhelming need for the development of consistent, sectoral, industry and location-specific policies by the federal and state governments to support internal policy development and the acquisition of new technologies in order to stimulate Australian SME CE adoption. In addition, Australian SMEs need to have a better understanding of how budgetary constraints, the lack of customer awareness and an absence of clearly defined business process impact CE adoption.

An intersectional approach to understanding the inequality and subordination of Sri Lankan women apparel workers

Contrary to the feminist research based on exclusively gendered processes of inequality in organisations, intersectionality theorists propose an intersectional approach to understanding the inequalities and subordination experienced by Global South women factory workers representing different social hierarchies and experiencing diverse social realities. This paper contributes to the literature by bringing empirical evidence from the Sri Lankan apparel industry to inform the inequality and subordination of women in Global South factory floors from an intersectional perspective. A qualitative methodology using data generated through interviews with women shop floor-level apparel workers who work in export processing zones (EPZs) and village areas was adopted to explore the interplay between multiple social categories (gender, poverty, and rurality) influenced by broader power structures (patriarchy and capitalism) as well as political inequalities in determining the inequalities and subordination of women workers in globalised apparel factories. Further, we consider how gendered and class-based factory processes produce and reproduce the inequalities and subordination of these women at work. The analysis identifies that workers' rural origins, poverty, and traditionally defined gendered roles have worked interactively in favour of capitalist industrialists by pushing these women workers to lower-paid manual jobs in the apparel industry. The factories utilise cheap, material-based incentives and recruitment systems for rewarding and recruiting shop floor workers, capitalising on their poverty, rurality and gender-based requirements as a source of exploitation. In addition, factory managers' behaviours create certain beliefs in these women workers, favouring the factories, resulting in the further subordination of these women through perceived cohesiveness or compliance. Finally, this paper concludes that capitalism, together with patriarchy, creates unequal and subordinated positions for poor, rural women through their collective agendas of wealth maximisation.
 Keywords: Inequality, Intersectionality, Sri Lankan apparel industry, Subordination, Women workers

Comparisons of Trunk Motions and Low Back Injury Risk between Alternative Hotel Room Cleaning Methods.

Hotel room cleaners frequently report job-related pain, with high rates of work-related musculoskeletal disorder injuries established for this group of workers. Surprisingly, there is limited published research documenting the impact of interventions to reduce ergonomic-related injury risks specific to hotel room cleaners' job tasks. In this study focused on hotel bathroom-cleaning and furniture-dusting tasks, twelve experienced hotel room cleaners used their standard method and a risk-reduction method-a tool with a handle that could extend, to perform these tasks. The female study participants' average age was 45.3 (SD 8.7) years with an average of 10 years of work experience as cleaners (range: 0.8-26.0 years). Trunk kinematics and a low back injury risk assessment were measured using the Lumbar Motion Monitor. All study metrics were significantly reduced when cleaning tasks involved use of adjustable, long-handled tools (p < 0.05). This study demonstrated that commonly available cleaning and dusting tools with extendable handles can significantly reduce low back injury risk among hotel room cleaners and potentially reduce injury risk to other body parts known to be the site of musculoskeletal disorders in this workforce. The study findings suggest that cleaning or housekeeping jobs in other industries where these same tasks are performed could benefit from use of extended-handle tools like those investigated here.

Instructor perspectives on the emergency transition to remote instruction of physics labs

Laboratory courses are an important part of the undergraduate physics curriculum. During physics labs, students can engage in authentic, hands-on experimental practices, which can prepare them for graduate school, research laboratories, and jobs in industry. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic in Spring 2020, colleges and universities across the world rapidly transitioned to teaching labs remotely. In this work, we report results from a survey of physics lab instructors on how they adapted their courses in the transition to emergency remote teaching. We identified three common themes in the instructors’ responses: (i) using a variety of simulation tools, (ii) changing learning goals of the courses to be more concept focused, and (iii) reducing group work due to equity and technological concerns. We discuss the common challenges and successes reported by instructors, which leads to themes and lessons that can impact future remote and in-person instruction.2 MoreReceived 16 August 2022Accepted 28 September 2022DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.18.020129Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article’s title, journal citation, and DOI.Published by the American Physical SocietyPhysics Subject Headings (PhySH)Research AreasInstructional strategiesLearning environmentTechnologyProfessional TopicsLower undergraduate studentsUpper undergraduate studentsPhysics Education Research

Technology and Increasing Unemployment Rate in Ghana: The Focus on the Packaging Industry

An experiential survey shows the dawn of technology is driving many workers out of jobs in the packaging industry. The research seeks to examine the unemployment rate with the advent of technology and to assess the effects of technology on the Packaging Industry in Ghana. The study's main goal was to identify the effects of technology in the Packaging Industry, hence the needed solutions to the effects that will be evident from the study's findings. An in-depth literature review from various authors has been discussed. For this study, the Research Design employed were the qualitative and quantitative approaches to gather comprehensive views and experiences from respondents for a better understanding of technology and unemployment issues in the Packaging Industry. The methodology engaged for the study included using questionnaires and interviews to reveal significant findings from respective respondents in the Packaging Industry for practical analysis of the study. Through non-probability purpose sampling, an aggregate of 27 respondents to the study comprising 21 package design graduate workers and 6 Packaging Industry managers were selected. Consequently, the researchers' findings revealed that technology had rendered jobless some employable package design graduates in the packaging industry. It is apparent that most companies currently prefer working with a few packaging design workers to achieve more than otherwise considering the current economic hardship and the benefits technology offers the packaging industry. Keywords: Packaging Industry, Unemployment, Technology, Effects, Package design, Jobs DOI: 10.7176/JEP/13-33-04 Publication date: November 30 th 2022

When personal protective equipment for health workers during COVID-19 outbreaks is missing: conclusions of the Catalan COVID-19 Workgroup

Frontline healthcare workers (HCWs) are at high risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection. The aim of this study is to ensure risk-based protection when there is a lack of personal protective equipment (PPE). At the beginning of the pandemic, it was suggested that PPE were necessary to protect HCWs from COVID-19. However, given supply shortage, PPE had to be replaced in some situations. Three levels of protection were established depending on the risk level of exposure to SARS-CoV-2. Best practices were reviewed and analysed, and subsequently implemented in all hospitals in Catalonia. As the first COVID-19 wave progressed, we became more knowledgeable with the behaviour of the virus, so PPE procedure tables and algorithms were modified and adapted to the changing scenarios. After airborne transmission was demonstrated as the main route of the virus transmission, we emphasized new measures to ensure respiratory tract protection. Three general tables were established based on low, medium, and high risk of infection for HCWs. These three scenarios are a subgroup of the very high-risk category, according to OSHA's pyramid of SARS-CoV-2 risk characterization. The most appropriate PPE for each task or job were identified and alternatives were given amid the shortage of PPE. Specific PPE are required for the healthcare sector. Many studies on PPE are based on the characteristics of industrial jobs, and do not consider the specificities of the healthcare sector, which requires close and prolonged contact with patients.

The Role of Educational Support, Social Support, Income Expectations and Personality on Student's Entrepreneurial Interests in Riau, Indonesia

Every year there are university graduates who should be able to improve the quality of human resources in Indonesia. The reality is that college graduates are more directed to the formal sector so when jobs in the legal industry do not grow, people do not try to create their careers. This research aims to analyse the effect of Higher Education Learning Support, Social Support, Income Expectations and Personality on Student Entrepreneurial Interests in Riau, Indonesia. The sample in this research is 400 students in Pekanbaru, Riau. The population in this study were final semester students (6,7,8) at a university in Pekanbaru, Riau. And by using research samples taken from as many as 400 people according to the sample criteria with solving calculations. The data analysis technique used tested the validity and reliability as well as the hypothesis as evidenced by multiple linear regression analysis. Based on the study's results, it can be concluded that the variables in this study consisting of college support, social support, income expectations and personality significantly influence student interest in Riau.&#x0D; Keywords: Educational Support, Social Support, Income Expectations, Personality, Entrepreneurial Interest

Review of Claire W. Herbert 2021: A Detroit Story: Urban Decline and the Rise of Property Informality. Oakland: University of California Press.

Detroit is the United States’ iconic shrinking city. The birthplace of Motown, it once offered good jobs in the auto industry, a place where people could buy a house and make a home. With its current population at about one third the level of the city’s peak, Detroit residents experience population loss in all dimensions […]

‘The Hand that Gives and the Hand that Takes’: The Taming of Zimbabwe Medical Doctors Industrial Job Action

The literature on repression and path dependence provides a solid theoretical tradition for understanding how regimes contain and repress protests and strikes. Less well-understood is how and why regimes react in the manner they do in containing industrial job action from critical and essential service sectors such as public doctors. Answering these questions is pertinent not only for advancing scholarly insights on repression literature but also for understanding the state’s power, character and worker resistance in Africa. Utilizing the Zimbabwean case study, the article examines public hospital doctors’ labour protests during 2018 and 2019. The article contends that how repressive regimes respond to collective job action is shaped by path dependence.

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Paving the Speedway to the IT Harbor: How Chinese Programming Boot Camp Prepares Chinese Migrants for IT Jobs in the United States

ABSTRACTIn recent years, Chinese migrants have become one primary source of computing professional labor in the United States. Within the Chinese migrant community, the computing profession was depicted as a new framework of success and a harbor to ease the stress caused by precarious immigration status. To successfully obtain a job in the IT industry, many Chinese migrants turned to the Chinese programming boot camp (PBC) for professional training in programming, which made Chinese PBC the intermediary between Chinese migrant professionals and the American companies demanding skilled programmers. In this research based on qualitative interviews with the founders, employees, and clients, I illustrated how Chinese PBC constructed computing knowledge into a set of techniques and skills to solve and present algorism problems. I interpreted this knowledge construction in the context of racialized and mystified computing profession in the Chinese migrant community.

Schoolchildren’s Perceptions of STEM Professions and Careers in Russia: Results of a Pilot Study

Introduction. The world of work is undergoing a global shift fuelled by technological innovation, demographic changes and environmental problems. This heightens the demand for STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) competencies which are seen as a catalyst for social and economic development. The purpose of this study was to investigate learner views on STEM professions, the learners’ overall attitudes regarding STEM, as well as their aspirations and willingness to choose a career in STEM and identify factors which are crucial in forming young people’s interests in studying STEM and pursuing STEM careers. Materials and Methods. This pilot study was conducted in May 2019 across three schools in the Moscow region. The authors used a slightly modified version of the learner questionnaire used by the European study “ECB-inGenious” to investigate perceptions of STEM careers among Russian learners in grades 8–9 and 10–11. Results. Overall, it was determined that a combination of intrinsic (cognitive and attitudinal) and extrinsic (social, cultural and economic) factors were responsible for learner engagement in STEM. Learners showed a strong awareness of STEM’s significance to society and displayed positive perceptions of STEM careers, although jobs in industry appeared less popular than those in other areas of STEM. Some factors, such as a learner’s personal experiences of STEM in and out of the classroom can even play a decisive role in shaping aspirations towards STEM careers. Younger learners expressed more enthusiasm for STEM careers than their older counterparts. Learners enrolled in classes specialising in STEM and learners whose parent(s) worked in STEM-related professions showed stronger positive attitudes to STEM careers. Discussion and Conclusion. To make an informed decision, learners require practical information and advice regarding STEM careers; schools can play an important role in this process. This guidance must begin early, ideally from primary school when learners are more enthused and interested in learning about STEM careers. It is also advisable for learners to be given more opportunities to join extracurricular STEM activities; consequently, a learner’s understanding of STEM subjects is expanded outside the academic curriculum which can spark a longlasting interest in the subject. Additionally, STEM subjects’ curriculums require enriching with real-life examples and should be contextualised in terms of relevant careers. Finally, schools should be encouraged to organise regular engagements with STEM professionals.

코로나19 이후 항공서비스관련학과 교육환경이 진로결정수준에 미치는 영향 : 그릿의 매개효과

This study attempted to conduct a study on the factors of the educational environment that affect the level of grit and career decision in the COVID-19 situation for college students in aviation service-related departments who will have difficulty finding employment at the same time as graduation due to the aviation industry continues due to COVID-19. Therefore, the results of this study are as follows. First, it was found that the quality of instructors and educational programs had a statistically significant effect on the influence relationship between the university education environment and the career decision level. However, it was found that the physical environment did not have a statistically significant effect. Second, in the relationship between the university education environment and the grit, it was found that the instructor's qualifications, educational programs, and physical environment were all significant. Third, it was proved that grit had a significant influence on the level of career decision. In addition, the mediating effect of grit was verified in the influence relationship between the university education environment and the career decision level. Based on these research results, we would like to derive implications for the university's educational environment where the continuous career decision level can lead to direct action for students in the aviation service department who want to get a job in the aviation industry in need due to COVID-19.

When the Lewisian Dream Sours: Industrial Aspirations and Reverse Labour Migration

The COVID-19 pandemic has escalated processes of labour transition from industrial work to the informal economy, which have always characterized the life of the working poor. This paper explores this kind of reverse transition, that is, when the Lewisian dream of having an industrial job comes to an end, and workers are forced into a reverse migration. Specifically, the paper focuses on the post-industrial experiences of former Indian garment workers leaving the National Capital Region and moving back to Bihar. Emphasis is placed on workers’ reasons for leaving the industry and their current employment and reproductive strategies. Findings are based on a sample of 50 former workers, identified in urban industrial hamlets and traced back to their place of origin. Respondents’ experiences are analysed based on semi-quantitative questionnaires and life histories. Findings reveal that upon leaving the factory, workers find alternative informal employment through caste or social networks whilst using land as safety net. They suggest that farming and informal work are not alternative but rather complementary income and work strategies. By adopting a life-cycle approach to studying labour transitions across formal and informal employment domains, this analysis contributes to policy debates on decent work.