Since the advent of liberalization in India in 1991, much attention has been directed towards India's substantial economic growth rates, the pressures of globalisation on its labour market, and its potential role in the global economy in future. Though there have been studies on India's position in the global economy, relatively few studies have examined how engagement with global production networks is impacting upon companies and workers in India.  This volume reveals that economic growth in India has created new opportunities for large and small firms, as well as new jobs for both highly-skilled workers and relatively low-skilled workers. However, the impact is uneven, even as opportunities for larger firms at the top of supply chains filter downwards. Moreover, economic upgrading does not necessarily translate into improved terms and conditions in the job, especially for workers embedded in lower tiers of global production networks. Instead, vulnerable jobs are on the rise for workers in the unorganised sector, and for some workers in the organised sector as well. With detailed sector-level studies spanning labour-intensive, skill-intensive and knowledge-intensive industries, this volume provides an analytical perspective on labour in an increasingly globalised economy. It further discusses how global production could be harnessed to yield better quality and more evenly-spread opportunities for firms and workers. Timely and topical, this book will appeal to scholars and researchers working on labour and employment studies, urban studies and gender studies; economists, political scientists, sociologists, administrators and policymakers, industry associations, and international institutions.

Labour in Global Production Networks

Business & Money

Posthuma, Anne

Nathan, Dev

Human Resources

Oxford University Press

This volume examines how development affects indigenous people in India, China, the Philippines, Indonesia, Lao PDR, and Vietnam, in a comparative perspective. It features multi-sited analyses, during and, of development projects in these countries over a period of about 15 years. The concept of development is approached in two ways: the first as improved well-being or welfare, and the second as the development of new capacities in production. The volume uses the results of, and lessons learnt, from these projects to look at broader issues of indigenous peoples' development. In doing so, it draws a framework for relevant future project design and implementation.

Markets and Indigenous Peoples in Asia: Lessons from Development Projects

Kelkar, Govind

Thapa, Ganesh

Cordone, Antonella

Economics

International Trade and Global Civil Society

This study challenges the dominant tendency of civil society to negate international trade as such. The authors argue that it is necessary to frame differentiated trade rules based on levels of economic development, and also to shift from subsidies to shore up uncompetitive livelihoods to productivity-enhancing investments.Most importantly, the boo

Narasimha Reddy, D

Routledge India

This study challenges the dominant tendency of civil society to negate international trade as such. The authors argue that it is necessary to frame differentiated trade rules based on levels of economic development, and also to shift from subsidies to shore up uncompetitive livelihoods to productivity-enhancing investments.Most importantly, the book ends with a case for trade unions, women's organizations and other civil society organizations to imagine and create themselves as being global -- in order to take up the challenge of strengthening global countervailing power to capital.

Knowledge and Global Inequality Since 1800 (Elements in Development Economics)

Cambridge University Press

Witch hunts are the result of gendered, cultural and socioeconomic struggles over acute structural, economic and social transformations in both the formation of gendered class societies and that of patriarchal capitalism. This book combines political economy with gender and cultural analysis to explain the articulation of cultural beliefs about women as causing harm, and struggles over patriarchy in periods of structural economic transformation. It brings in field data from India and South-East Asia and incorporates a large body of works on witch hunts across geographies and histories. Witch Hunts is a scholarly analysis of the human rights violation of women and its correction through changes in beliefs, knowledge practices and adaptation in structural transformation.

Witch Hunts: Culture, Patriarchy and Structural Transformation

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

This book provides a firm analytical base to discussions about injustice and the unequal distribution of gains from global production in the form of global monopsony capitalism. It utilizes the concept of reverse subsidies as the purchase of gendered labour and environmental services below their costs of production in garment value chains in India and other garment producing countries, such as Bangladesh and Cambodia. Environmental services, such as freshwater for garment manufacture and land for cotton production, are degraded by overuse and untreated waste disposal. The resulting higher profits from the low prices of garments are captured by global brands, using their monopsony position, with few buyers and myriad sellers, in the market. This book links the concept of reverse subsidies with those of injustice, inequality and sustainability in global production.

Reverse Subsidies in Global Monopsony Capitalism: Gender, Labour, and Environmental Injustice in Garment Value Chains (Development Trajectories in Global Value Chains)

Silliman Bhattacharjee, Shikha

Rahul, S.

Kumar, Purushottam

Dahagani, Immanuel

Singh, Sukhpal

Swaminathan, Padmini

Gender and Tribe: Women, Land and the Forests

Anthropology

Zed Books

Gender and Tribe: Women, Land, and Forests in Jharkhand

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