Sarkar, Santanu creator text xu| 2007 continuing ng p.347-56. Dignity of labour is one of the contemporary issues that have been debated extensively by the scholars. Though the term labour accords a deep sense of dignity to the working persons, nevertheless, the wisdom of moral and ethical commitment of private ownership market economy is realised by its virtue to value human being as one of the resources. This paper examines the recounts the experiences of Indian labour (from both unorganised and organised sectors who have been ruthlessly compelled to take up the forms of forced, bonded, migrant and contract labour) vis-a-vis the universal application of the expression `dignity' and the decade old deliberations of the State through its legislative, judiciary and constitutional safeguards. - Reproduced. Labour - India Labour Indian Journal of Labour Economics 180718