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America’s Labor Crisis
One of the most important aspects of this crisis is the U.S. economy’s diminishing capacity to provide employment.
Pune: Migrant Workers Return to Job Losses, Lower Salaries
Migrant workers, who had left Pune owing to the Covid-induced lockdown, have returned to the district only to find a scarcity of jobs.
Modi’s Claim on Success of Demonetisation Is a Blatant Untruth
Celebrating demonetisation as a success story that has led to formalisation indicates everything that is wrong with the government’s economic policies.
Women Lead Protest in Odisha’s Jharsuguda Against Vedanta Plant
Odisha’s Jharsuguda is witnessing massive protests owing to rampant rampant issues of displacement and loss of livelihoods, along with pollution.
Amidst Pandemic, Billionaires’ Wealth Zooms – Globally and in India
The wealth of billionaires, in this pandemic, tops trillions of dollars. America’s 400 richest are worth a record $3.2 trillion. The net worth of India’s billionaires too rose by more than a third between April and July, 2020.
Work or Toil in the Pandemic
Technology does not deliver a “happy life” (Smith) or “abundant leisure” (Keynes). Mechanisation under capitalism has actually led to more ’bullshit jobs’ that destroy creativity and meaningful work, while increasing toil.
New Labour Codes Dilute Workers Rights and Collective Bargaining
In this Monsoon Session, the Parliament passed three critical pieces of legislation amidst a walkout by the opposition. The Acts have undone years of jurisprudential developments in workers rights in the unequal relationship between employers and employees.
Charlie Chaplin and Karl Marx in Conversation
Marx called his version of human nature species being. Modern Times is really about species being—our fundamental needs, our drive not to be dehumanized, the survival of our spirits as well as our bodies, the full expression of this limited creature.
On PM Modi’s Birthday, ‘National Unemployment Day’ Trends on Social Media
On the occasion of Narendra Modi’s 70th birthday, Twitter users took upon themselves to remind the prime minister of the growing joblessness and acute economic crisis that the country is facing.
Period Leave is Just; Menstruation is Reproductive Labour – Two Articles
If we learn to see menstruation as reproductive labour, we can then can see menstruating women as labourers with rights, including the right to choice of work.