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What are the linkage points between globalisation and the growth of the informal sector? How have these affected the nature and functioning of the working class?

  • UPSC 2011
  • Industrialization and Urbanisation in India

Indian evidence after 1991 disposes of the assumption that integration formalises labour. The organised sector stopped adding permanent jobs and began informalising itself from within. Two things must therefore be shown: the precise mechanisms that link globalisation to informality, and what those mechanisms did to the working class as a social force.

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  • The linkage points
  • Effects on the nature of the working class
  • Effects on functioning: organisation and bargaining
  • Conclusion

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