Inflation - Purchasing power of workers' wages dips due to inflation
A survey tabled in Parliament on Tuesday said nominal rural wage had increased at a steady positive rate till November 2022
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A survey tabled in Parliament on Tuesday said nominal rural wage had increased at a steady positive rate till November 2022
A survey tabled in Parliament on Tuesday said nominal rural wage had increased at a steady positive rate till November 2022
According to the Periodic Labour Force Survey, the unemployment rate in India was, at 6.1 per cent in 2017-18, already the worst in four decades
Thousands of migrant workers in cities such as Delhi and Calcutta are unable to access subsidised foodgrains either because they don’t have ration cards or because the cards they have are registered elsewhere. After sitting idle for over a week, migrant construction worker Guna Nayak was happy to get a day’s work to clean a showroom in South Extension in Delhi. The owner was “very kind hearted,” Guna said. The wage of Rs 500 was Rs 100 more than what he usually gets from construction work. More importantly, Guna got 3kg rice and 5kg wheat as a gesture of help.
By Dr Simi Mehta, Ritika Gupta* The inevitability of the birth of alternative development framework is inherent within the metabolism of the capital system. It is important to examine how the alternative development paradigm unfolds as a new epistemology out of resistance movements and other radical transformative initiatives like globalization and socio-economic system and institutions; which create and co-create unequal distribution of power and perpetuate discrimination and domination by humans over others as well as over nature. Prof Sunil Ray articulated his views on alternative developm...