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This review presents a critical account of the most powerful critique of liberal political thought to have emerged in recent years: a critique it calls the 'politics of compulsion'. Drawing on the work of a wide range of critics of contemporary liberalism, this article contends that although those who advance this critique are divided in many ways they are nonetheless held together by a series of powerful descriptive and normative challenges to liberal political philosophy as it has developed since the publication of John Rawls's Political Liberalism. The article further demonstrates that most of these challenges centre on the place of coercive power in modern political life and suggests that, although these challenges should not undermine liberals' commitment to their central normative claims, they do nonetheless provide an essential rejoinder to some of liberalism's more complacent assumptions.

SummaryThe success of a compulsory sterilization programme depends on obtaining a correct history of family size from the couples concerned. Accordingly, we carried out a feasibility study at Prabhadevi Municipal Hospital, Bombay. At registration for confinement the women were required to produce some documentary proof such as a ration card, Employee's State Insurance Scheme card, or a letter from the Sarpanch of Gram Panchayat for women coming from villages, to indicate the number of their living children. The difficulties met by the staff in obtaining the necessary information and the problems of the women in providing documentary evidence are discussed, together with the results of the survey.

After the recent releases of employment and unemployment data by NSSO the hype around self employment seems to have multiplied, though there have been some attempts to uncover details of the self employed. Whether individuals take to self employment as a result of a 'push' out of the formal economy, or a due to a 'pull' towards more lucrative and advantageous employment opportunities is an intensely debated topic in the labour economics literature. The analysis in the essay reveals that self employment in the post liberalisation period is not one of new productive opportunities, resultant of a high growth economy, but of lack of employment opportunities. The growing social and economic crisis is locking vast sections of women workers into a downward spiral of more labour for less income resulting in an enhancement of gender based inequality in the world of work as a whole.