Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer
Write short note with a sociological Perspective: Issues relating to the informal labour market in urban India.
- UPSC 2015
- 10 marks
- Industrialization and Urbanisation in India
Sociologically, urban India's informal labour market is barely a market: no open advertisement, no bidding, no wage-setting institution, no enforceable contract. Barbara Harriss-White, in India Working (2003), argues that where the state does not regulate, social regulation does — caste, gender, religion and kinship allocate work. That is the frame for its problems.
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- A market embedded in ascriptive identity
- Recruitment: the jobber survives
- Wages without wage-setting
- Conclusion
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