 The political economy of labor informality in India: trends, theories and politicsSupriya RoyChowdhury Chapter 49 in Handbook of Research on the Global Political Economy of Work, 2023, pp 581-590 from Edward Elgar Publishing Abstract: Successive agrarian crises and stunted employment in industries have combined to create a crisis of work in India. The growth of the services sector has seen a rise primarily in informal employment. Informal work is often seen as the domain of the self-employed, of petty trade and small enterprises. However, in many parts of the global south, there is a rise in salaried wage labor, in construction, global supply chains in apparels and electronics, contract work in large corporations, and in services. In these domains, employment remains largely unregulated. I argue that there is a need to bring back wage labor to the centre of analysis and politics, particularly in the context of global capital, and from that conceptual platform a new politics of trade unionism can perhaps be crafted, drawing on the institutional and cultural reservoir of more than a century of the trade union movement. Keywords: Business and Management; Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Politics and Public Policy Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:elg:eechap:19739_49 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Chapters from Edward Elgar Publishing |
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