Development That Kills: The Political Economy of Workplace Deaths
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.
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Dismantling the MGNREGA: An Assault on Livelihoods of Millions of Workers – 4 Articles
‘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’.
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Capitalism | Economy | Exploitation | India | Online Blog | Poverty | Unemployment
India: Inequality at Historic High; World Bank Shows Rising Poverty as Declining – 4 Articles
‘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’.
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Capitalism | Exploitation | India | Online Blog | Poverty | Privatization | Unemployment
Profit Over Public Interest
The Centre’s push for PSB consolidation and foreign investment prioritises bank profitability over financial inclusivity.
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The Invisibility of Domestic Workers in Urban India; Karnataka’s Domestic Workers Bill – 2 Articles
‘“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’.
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India’s Migrants: Exclusion by Design
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.
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Capitalism | India | Inflation | Online Blog | Poverty | Unemployment
Micro Finance Companies Crushing the Poor – 2 Articles
‘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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Accumulation Amid Distress: Part II
India’s large capitalists and India’s people are both facing problems at present. These problems appear to be direct opposites of each other; but in fact they are two faces of the same phenomenon. The first part of this article described the financial situation of the corporate sector. This part describes the financial situation of the people.
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Several States Extend Working Day to 10 Hours – 2 Articles
‘Return of the Long Working Day!’: A personal experience of an emotionally, physically and financially draining stint with corporate slavery in India’s finance capital. Also: ‘Government of Maharashtra’s Decision to “Reform” Labour Laws is Highly Regressive and a Clear Attack on Labour Rights’.
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Working Conditions of Gig Workers Equivalent to Forced Labour; Karnataka’s Gig Work Legislation – 2 Articles
‘10-Minute Delivery in Relentless Rains: What it Costs Riders and What They Earn?’: Delivery persons for apps like Blinkit and Swiggy work in conditions akin to forced labour, and earn less than minimum wages. Also: ‘Gig Work Legislations Significant in Opening the Space for Labour Protection’.
