Past conferences
Held at Lucknow University,Lucknow in 1958 (Jan)
Conference President: V.V. Giri
Themes :
● Social Security
● Industrial Relations
● Trade Unionism
● Problems of Agricultural Labour
● Teaching and Research in Labour Economics
Inaugural Address 
Presidential Address
Held at Agra University, Agra in 1958 (Dec)
Conference President: V.V. Giri
Themes:
● Wage Policy
● Workers Participation in Management
● Unemployment in India
Inaugural Address
Presidential Address
Held at University of Madras, Madras in 1959
Conference President: P.C. Mahalanobis
Themes :
● Full Employment in Developing Economies
● Approaches to Labour Policy in the Third Five Year Plan
● Towards Theory of Wage Structure
Held at Punjab University, Chandigarh in 1960
Conference President: P.C. Mahalanobis
Themes :
● Full Employment in Developing Economies
● Approaches to Labour Policy in the Third Five Year Plan
● Towards Theory of Wage Structure
Held at Karnataka University, Dharwar in 1961
Conference President: Gyan Chand
Themes :
● Scope of Labour Economics
● Social Securities
● Rural Underemployment
Held at Gujarat University, Ahmedabad in 1962
Conference President: C.N. Vakil
Themes :
● Employment and Economic Development
● Agricultural Labour in India
● Industrial Democracy
Held at University of Bombay, Bombay in 1963
Conference President: R.K. Mukherjee
Themes :
● Share of Wages in National Income
● Productivity in Export Industries
● Role of Labour in National Defence
Held at M.S. University, Baroda in 1964
Conference President: V.K.R.V. Rao
Themes:
● Wage-Price Relation
● Technology and Labour
● Role of Trade Unions
Held at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi in 1965
Conference President : Ashoka Mehta
Themes :
● Wage Determination
● Consumer Price Index
● Worker’s Education
Held at Calcutta University, Calcutta in 1966
Conference President: P.C. Mahalanobis
Themes :
● NA
Held at University of Madras, Madras in 1967
Conference President: Baljit Singh
Themes :
● Economic Policy and Labour
● Wage Incentives
● Trade Unionism Among Non-Manual Employees
Held at Patna University, Patna in 1969
Conference President: B.N. Ganguli
Themes :
● Employment Policy
● Process of Collective Bargaining
● Indian Trade Unionism
Held at Kanpur University, Kanpur in 1969 (Dec)
Conference President: K.P. Bhatnagar
Themes :
● Norms of Wage Determination
● Determinants of Industrial Relations
● Nature and Content of Labour Economics
Held at Meerut University, Meerut in 1972
Conference President: A.K. Dasgupta
Themes:
● Manpower Planning
● Industrial Relations
● Labour and Economic Development
Held at Andhra University, Waltair in 1974
Conference President: Sukhmoy Chakravarty
Themes:
● Income Policy
● Unorganised Sector
● White Collar Trade Unionism s.
Held at Punjabi University, Patiala in 1976
Conference President: K.N. Raj
Themes:
● Employment-oriented Planning
● Industrial Relations in Public Undertakings
● Economics of Labour Welfare
Held at S V. University, Tirupati in 1977
Conference President: D.T. Lakdawala
Themes:
● Wage Structure in India
● Labour Policy
● Unemployment and Structural Change S V. University,Tirupati
Held at Sardar Patel Institute of Economic and Social Research, Ahmedabad in 1978
Conference President: M.L. Dantwala
Themes :
● NA
Held at Patna University, Patna in 1979
Conference President: G.P. Sinha
Themes :
● Labour Force Characteristics and Employment Planning
● Segmentation of Labour Markets
Held at Kakatia University, Warangal in 1980
Conference President: G.P. Sinha
Themes :
● Wage Determination in a Developing Economy
● Role of Law in Industrial Relations
Held at Xavier Labour Relations Institute Jamshedpur in 1981
Conference President: R.C. Saxena
Themes :
● Sharing Gains in Productivity
● Collective Bargaining : Status and Prospects in India
● Special Employment Generation Schemes in India
Held at Punjab University, Chandigarh in 1983
Conference President: P.C. Mahalanobis
Themes :
● Wage-Employment Relationship in Developing Countries
● Motivation and Job Satisfaction in Indian Industries
● Labour Relations in Indian Agriculture
Held at Lucknow University,Lucknow in 1984
Conference President: Gautam Mathur
Themes :
● Rural-Urban Migration
● Human Resources in Economic Development
● Indian Trade Unionism
Held at Vikram University, Ujjain in 1985
Conference President: Raj Krishna
Themes :
● Role of State in Industrial Relations
● Problems of Labour in Unorganised Sector
● Wage Employment and Equity
Held at University of Mysore, Mysore in 1986
Conference President: P.R. Brahmananda
Themes :
● Wage, Trends in Organised and Unorganised Sector
● Employment Policy and the Seventh Five Year Plan
● Industrial Relations in SSI Units
Held at Bharathidasam University Tiruchirapalli in 1987b
Conference President: V.M. Dandekar
Themes:
● Share of Wages
● Technology and Employment
● Trade Unionism
Held at Madurai Kamraj University, Madurai in 1988 (Jan)
Conference President: B.N. Datar
Themes:
● Labour Markets in India
● Industrial Relations : Emerging Trends
● Workers’ Ownership and Management
Held at A.N. Sinha Institute of Social studies Patna in 1988 (Dec)
Conference President: P.C. Joshi
Themes:
● Women Workers in India
● New Developments in Personnel Management
● Labour Scenario in the 21st Century
Held at Bangalore University, Bangalore in 1989
Conference President: L.K. Deshpande
Themes:
● Development Planning and Rural Labour
● National Wage Policy
● Industrial Relations : Recent Trends in India
Presidential Address
Held at Utkal University, Bhubaneswar in 1990
Conference President: D.M. Nanjundappa
Themes:
●Child Labour
● Quality Circles
● New Trends in Trade Unionism
● Labour Market Flexibility
Held at Osmania University, Hyderabad in 1991
Conference President: Ruddar Datt
Themes:
● Labour Absorption and Labour Migration
● Worker’s Participation in Management
● Peasant Movement in India
Held at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi in 1993
Conference President: K.M. Naidu
Themes:
● New Economic Policy and Labour
● Labour Productivity and Trade Unionism
● Strikes and Lockouts in India
Held at Gandhi Labour Institute, Ahmedabad in 1994
Conference President: T.S. Papola
Themes:
● Employment Generation in India
● Quality of Work Life
● Labour Institutions and Economic Development
Held at Punjabi University, Patiala in 1995 (Jan)
Conference President: C.H. Hanuamantha Rao
Themes:
● Labour Market Felxibility
● Rural Labour Markets and Poverty Emerging Trends in Trade Unionism
Held at Pondichery University, Pondichery in 1995 (Dec)
Conference President: Sheila Bhalla
Themes:
● Structural Adjustment, Labour Market and Poverty
● Employment in the Service Sector
● Organising the Unorganised Workers
Held at V.V. Giri National Labour Institute, NOIDAh in 1996
Conference President: C.P. Thakur
Themes:
● Changes in Workforce Structure
● Social Security for Indian Workers
● Emerging Issues in Industrial Relations
Held at Kerala University and Centre for Development Studies Thiruvananthpuram in 1998 (Jan)
Conference President: Ashok Mathur
Themes:
● Political Economy of Labour
● Minimum Wages
● Child Labour
Presidential Address
Held at University of Hyderabad , Hyderabad in 1998 (Dec)
Conference President: Yoginder K. Alagh
Themes:
● Issues in Wage Policy
● Labour Migration
● International Labour Standards and India
Presidential Address
Held at Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai in 1999
Conference President: S.R. Hashim
Themes:
● Trade, Technology and Employment
● Women in the Emerging Labour Market
● Changing Economic Structure and Labour Institutions
Held at Rani Durgavati University, Jabalpur in 2000
Conference President: L. Mishra
Themes:
● Youth Unemployment in India
● Employment in Service Sector
● Regional Pattern of Industrial Relations in India
Presidential Address
Held at Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore in 2001
Conference President: R. Radhakrishna
Themes:
● Redundancy and Rehabiliation of Workers
● Social Security for Workers in the Unorganised Sector
● Changing Agrarian Relations and Rural Labour
Held at Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar in 2002
Conference President: Deepak Nayyar
Themes:
● Rural Non-Farm Employment in India
● Education, Skill Development and Changing Labour Market
● New Forms of Labour Organisation
Presidential Address
Held at Jadavpur University, Kolkata in 2003
Conference President: G.K. Chadha
Themes:
● Changes in the World of Work
● Changing Structure of Indian Workforce
● Emerging Pattern of Industrial Relations
Held at Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur' in 2004
Conference President: D.N. Reddy
Themes:
● Human Capital Base of the Indian Labour Market
● Labour Processes and Productivity in Micro and Small Enterprises
● Collective Bargaining : Status and Prospects
Held at CESP, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi in 2005
Conference President: Prabhat Patnaik
Themes:
● State and Labour
● Labour in the Knowledge Economy
● Right to Work
Presidential Address
Held at Bharathidasan University, Thiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu in 2007 (Jan)
Conference President: V.S. Vyas
Themes:
● Wages and Employment
● Agrarian Crisis and Rural Labour
● Emerging Trends in the Trade Union Movement
Presidential Address
Held at Centre for Economic and Social Studies, Hyderabad in 2007 (Dec)
Conference President: G.S. Bhalla
Themes:
● Economic Diversification in Rural India
● Conditions of Work and Rights of Workers in the Unorganised
● Sector
● Trends in Wage and Income Differentials
Presidential Address
Held at Giri Institute of Development Studies, Lucknow in 2008
Conference President: K.P. Kannan
Themes:
● Globalisation, Labour Markets and Employment
● Women Workers in the New Economy
● Education and Skills for the Emerging Labour Market
● Labour Organisations in Independent India
Presidential Address
Held on in 2009
Conference President: Arjun Sengupta
Themes:
● Labour Market Discrimination
● Right to Employment
● Labour Regulations in India
Presidential Address
Held at Karnatak Univesity, Dharwad, Karnatka in 2010
Conference President: Abhijit Sen
Themes:
● Planning for Full Employment
● Labour Migration: Causes and Consequences
● Emerging Pattern of Employment Relation
Conference Programme
Presidential Address
Held at Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur in 2011
Conference President: S.S.Gill
Themes:
● Women’s Work
● Labour and Environment
● Social Protection for Workers in India
Conference Programme
Presidential Address
Held at Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi in 2012
Conference President: S.K. Thorat
Themes:
● Wages and Wage Share
● Employment in the Post Reform India
● Labour Rights in the Globalising World
Conference Programme
Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2013
Conference President: Jayati Ghosh
Themes:
● Social Inclusion and the Labour Market
● Changing Patterns of Rural Labour in India
● Labour Regulation in Indian Industry
Conference Programme
BIT Mesra Ranchi, 2014
Conference President: Indira Hirway
Themes:
● Inter-linkages between Formal and Informal Labour Processes
● The Demographic Dividend: Challenges of Employment and Employability;
● Industrial Relations in India: Sectoral and Regional Patterns
Conference Programme
Presidential Address
Central University of Kashmir, 2015
IIT Guwahati, 2016
Conference President: Ajit Ghose
Themes:
● Labour Market Institutions and Regulations
● Wages in India: Structure, Trends and Determination
● Education, Employment and Labour Markets
Conference Programme
Presidential Address
Gulati Institute of Finance and Taxation (GIFT) Thiruvananthapuram, 2017
Conference President: S. Mahendra Dev
Themes:
● Informality and Labour Market
● Macro-Economic Policies and Employment
● Technological Change and Employment
Conference Programme
Presidential Address
Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai, 2018
Conference President: Kaushik Basu
Themes:
● Emerging Labour Markets and Employment Challenges
● Inequality in Labour Markets and Wellbeing
● Theme III: World of Work and Women
Conference Programme
Presidential Address
Punjabi University, Patiala, 2019
Conference President: Gerry Rodgers
Themes:
● Technology, Globalization and Work
● Labour Organisations and Labour Rights in the Changing World of Work
● Changing Pattern of Rural Labour Markets
Conference Programme
Presidential Address
IIT Roorkee, Uttarakhand, 2022
Conference President: Alakh N. Sharma
Themes:
● The Employment Challenge
● Migration and Development
● Social Protection for Workers
Conference Programme
Presidential Address
Rajiv Gandhi University, Arunachal Pradesh, 2023
Conference President: Jeemol Unni
Themes:
● The Challenge of Youth Employment
● Changing Rural Labour Markets and Rural Diversification
● Long Term Impact of COVID 19 Pandemic on the Economy and the Labour Market
Conference Programme
Presidential Address
University of Hyderabad, 2024
Conference President: Ritu Dewan
Themes:
● Gig and Platform Work
● Growth and Employment
● Care Economy and Labour Market
Conference Programme
Presidential Address
Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore, 2025
Conference President: Lakhwinder Singh
Themes:
● Landscape of Self-Employment: Assessing Structures, Status and Work Quality
● Dynamics of Changing Industrial Relations, Evolving Employment Dynamics and Work Patterns
● Service Sector Employment: Structure, Trends and Implications
Conference Programme
Presidential Address
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