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“There has been a substantial decline in labour class and increase in labour force in non-manual jobs with the advent of new technological revolution.” Critically examine.

  • UPSC 2010
  • Science, Technology and Social Change

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The statement fuses two different claims: an occupational one, that manual jobs shrink while non-manual jobs grow, and a class one, that the working class itself is disappearing. The first is broadly true of advanced economies and only partly true of India; the second does not follow from it, because occupational category and class position…

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  • The claim at its strongest
  • Why the class inference fails
  • Indian evidence: no linear march
  • Conclusion
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