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Discuss the changes taking place in the industrial class structure in India.

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  • Social Classes in India

The classical Indian industrial class structure — a permanent factory proletariat facing an identifiable employer, organised by party-linked federations — is dissolving. What is replacing it is not a smaller working class but a differently composed one: contractual, dispersed, service-based and harder to organise.

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  • The decline of the organised factory proletariat
  • The new strata
  • Informalisation, feminisation and law
  • Weakening class organisation
  • Conclusion

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