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When growth numbers flatter power, hide job scarcity, and mute rising costs, bad data stops disciplining policy and democracy pays a hefty price, writes the famed economist professor.
‘The Supreme Court’s Remarks on Trade Unions Are Not in Conformity with the Constitution’; ‘Domestic Workers, Women’s Labour, and the Language of the Courts’; ‘Incinerated in the Name of Growth: The Price of India’s War on Trade Unions’.
The State Is Withdrawing from Protecting Unorganised Workers’; ‘“The Doorbell Is Not the Problem”: Why Government Regulation Is Necessary for the Gig Work Sector’; ‘What the State and Start-Up Ecosystem’s Celebration of India’s Gig Economy Tells Us About the Precarious Future of Work’.
Today, workplaces are truly turning into killing fields. As long as development means profit and workers are treated as fuel, these killing fields will continue to operate.
‘Withdraw VB-G RAM G Bill Forthwith, Says NREGA Sangharsh Morcha’; ‘End of MGNREGA Will Deepen Poverty’; ‘Low Funds, Pending Dues, No Work: How Govt Crippled MGNREGA Before Renaming It’; ‘The Aadhaar e-KYC has Led to the Silent Shrinking of India’s Rural Workforce’.
‘The Hidden Cost of India’s Economic Boom: Inequality at Historic High, as Wealth and Income Growth Leave Out Millions’; ‘G20 Report Says Top 1% Indians Grew Richer by 62% in 2000–23’; ‘World Bank Miracle: How to Show Rising Poverty as Declining!’; ‘India’s Wealth Gap Grows and Average Wealth Falls, But Millionaires Surge’.
The Centre’s push for PSB consolidation and foreign investment prioritises bank profitability over financial inclusivity.
‘“Instant Help” to “Incessant Labour”: The Invisibility of Domestic Workers in Urban India’: A study of the impact of capitalist and patriarchal systems on the structural invisibility and devaluation of domestic workers in urban India. Also: ‘Karnataka: Domestic Workers Bill a Good Step, But Some Concerns Persist’.
Migrant workers fuel India’s growth yet remain excluded from its rewards. Policy silences and regional inequalities sustain their exploitation, and caste hierarchies have been reconfigured within neoliberal urban economies to normalise their exclusion from the nation’s systems.
‘Micro Loans are Driving an Already Forsaken Population Further Into Distress’: Despite the fact that the poor today are cash starved and are desperate for loans to make their ends meet, our credit apparatus and banking system seem to have forsaken them. Also: ‘Debts to Death: How Microfinance Companies are Crushing the Poor in Bihar’.
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