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Comment on the sociological impact of globalization on people working in the Informal sector.

  • UPSC 2009
  • Industrialization and Urbanisation in India

Read sociologically rather than economically, globalisation's deepest effect on India's informal workers is not the wage but the self. It has raised what they want, dissolved the groups through which they once got it, and left each household to carry alone a risk that was formerly shared. My position is that the balance is negative…

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  • Work without an occupational identity
  • The household as a shock absorber
  • Gender: income without renegotiation
  • Aspiration, consumption and the rupture of community
  • Individualised risk
  • Conclusion

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