An Indian Apartheid
Ideals of the proletariat, their commune and a proletariat dictatorship lay fossilised as painful photos of scores of migrant labourers walking many hundred miles to reach the safety of their village hit headlines in India in the early days of the first wave of Covid-19 in 2020
Suchetana Ray - February 01, 2024
Rage of the Fast and Furious
Southern states are angry despite being beneficiaries, along with western states, of the country’s unequal industrial development. In their rush to gather new forms of industrial opulence, they continue to benefit from the cheap labour of central and eastern regions. Will the former share their riches for a more equitable growth of the union of states?
Abdul Haleem Sherif - February 02, 2024
Withering Away...
"Workers of the world, unite!” Thus proclaimed the Communist Manifesto in 1848, as Marx and Engels invoked a world order where workers would take over the machinery of capitalism. A dictatorship of the proletariat!
Suchetana Ray - May 30, 2023
Who Cares for Workers Inside Dark Indian Factories?
Small and medium manufacturing establishments offer little physical or social security to their teeming workforce. They rarely followed the welfare provisions of old laws. With new labour codes in place, there is a mismatch between the government’s ambition to make India a manufacturing hub and the material condition of its workers
Rajat Mishra - May 30, 2023
Campaigns India Needs To Become A Women’s World
Organisations can start by countering the prevalent stereotypes and depict real-world women and their dreams, aspirations and disappointments. They can come up with campaigns that help boost their self-esteem
Prahlad Kakkar - October 31, 2022
India Ain’t No Cheap Labour Anymore
E-economy and platform-based job discovery are making jobs accessible at great cost-benefit to employers and employees
Guruprasad Srinivasan - October 31, 2022
Weary At Work
The knowledge worker is tired in office and searching for the elusive work-life balance. The government and corporates want to take better care of the employee to build a robust knowledge economy and avoid losing talent to developed countries. Can they succeed?
Sneha Kanchan - May 28, 2022
Women In Shining Armour
In 2021, the Best Workplaces for Women in India have more women in their employee mix than the rest
September 30, 2021
Fixing India’s unemployment through formal job creation
COVID-19 creates a policy window to make India a fertile habitat for formal non-farm job creation
Manish Sabharwal - August 26, 2020
Walking back to uncertainty
The lockdown had left many migrant workers stranded, and now that they have gone home, this migration is haunting the economy
August 25, 2020