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Prospects for Labour and Contemporary Capitalism: An Assessment With Reference to India

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  • Praveen Jha

    (Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, and Adjunct Professor, Centre for Informal Sector and Labour Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University)

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This paper seeks to engage with some of the core conceptual and empirical challenges confronting the present and future of work, with particular focus on India, and is divided into three sections. The first section flags a couple of major features associated with contemporary global accumulation regimes and their implications. The second section explores some of the important dimensions of labour and employment in the Indian context. The third section, with a focus on India, flags a few issues of employment in ICT and ITES sectors and shares some of the results from a recent field study. The last section offers some concluding remarks.

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  • Praveen Jha, 2019. "Prospects for Labour and Contemporary Capitalism: An Assessment With Reference to India," The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Springer;The Indian Society of Labour Economics (ISLE), vol. 62(3), pages 319-340, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:ijlaec:v:62:y:2019:i:3:d:10.1007_s41027-019-00187-4
    DOI: 10.1007/s41027-019-00187-4
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    1. Jha, Praveen K. & Kumar, Dinesh, 2021. "India's participation in global value chains and some implications for economic and social upgrading: A case study of the automobile sector," IPE Working Papers 156/2021, Berlin School of Economics and Law, Institute for International Political Economy (IPE).
    2. Praveen Jha & Preksha Mishra, 2022. "Persistent Vulnerabilities in the World of Work and Contemporary Capitalism: Some Reflections on India," The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Springer;The Indian Society of Labour Economics (ISLE), vol. 65(2), pages 347-372, June.
    3. Jha, Praveen K. & Goyal, Meghna, 2022. "Situating the COVID-19 pandemic in the context of the Indian economy," IPE Working Papers 187/2022, Berlin School of Economics and Law, Institute for International Political Economy (IPE).

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