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Pandemic Precarity

Vol. 57, Issue No. 5, 29 Jan, 2022
Aseem Prakash, Hem Borker

This paper focuses on the social experiences of migrant informal workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. It argues how institutions in the realms of the state, market, and civil society interacted and created conditions of precarity unique to the pandemic. How dominant frameworks that explain the praxis of entitlements fail to capture such infringement arising from the overlaps and intersections between the state, market, and civil society are highlighted in this paper. 

 

Workers' Right to Strike

Vol. 39, Issue No. 39, 25 Sep, 2004
Aseem Prakash

A report of the social dialogue through consultations held across the country to discuss the Supreme Court judgment on the Tamil Nadu government employees' strike, with regard to its constitutional, legal, economic and political dimensions.

Re-imagination of the State and Gujarat�s Electoral Verdict

Vol. 38, Issue No. 16, 19 Apr, 2003
Aseem Prakash

The BJP's electoral victory in Gujarat last year has further cemented the grasp of the Hindu right in all aspects of the state's social and political domain. The rise of reactionary politics was itself an outgrowth of different socio-political movements that Gujarat was witness to since the 1970s. It is the absence of any progressive class/caste movement or a new social movement, this paper argues, that has made Gujarat susceptible to experiments with and sustenance of right wing ideologies, especially the politics of the Hindu right.

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