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Discuss the impact of globalisation on the workers in the Informal sector.

  • UPSC 2014
  • 20 marks
  • Industrialization and Urbanisation in India

Indian sociology's central finding since 1991 is that liberalisation did not shrink the informal sector; it enlarged and reorganised it. Over nine-tenths of Indian workers remain outside statutory protection, and the National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector (2007) put unorganised employment at about 92 per cent of the workforce. The question is what…

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  • From employment to a chain of contracts
  • Feminisation, and what it did and did not deliver
  • Volatility transferred to the worker
  • Polarisation, not uniform loss
  • The organised response
  • Conclusion

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