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Examine in detail the impact of new global economy on work organization and family structure in India.

  • UPSC 2004
  • Works and Economic Life

The new global economy, which India joined through the 1991 reforms, is built on information technology, services, global value chains and mobile capital. Manuel Castells (The Rise of the Network Society, 1996) argued that it changes the logic of work from fixed hierarchy to flexible networks. Because work and family are closely linked, changes in…

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  • Impact on work organisation
  • Impact on family structure
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