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Impact of Conflict on Labour Migrants in Kashmir

The Kashmir Valley is an abode to countless number of migrants from different states and union territories of India. The present study throws light on the impact of conflict on these migrants along with the reasons behind this migration pull and their survival strategies.

Labour versus Labour

Echelons of labour in the production process are investigated. There is labour directed at the flow of output. Unproductive work also exists. It is concluded that the government expenditure supports production, and the taxation of unearned incomes should be 100%.

Indian Labour Intermediaries and Global Production Networks

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Is Market-driven Education Reproducing Alienation? Re-reading Marx on Human Nature

Various studies and scholastic arguments have now established the link between modern education and alienation. These studies range across disciplines like psychology, sociology, and political science as well as subjects that provide a critical analysis of the normative global shape shifting that affects local politics. More or less, in most of the contentions, one does observe a pertinent emphasis on the dominating force of the market. Market as a driving force in present-day education systems is also deciding their future. In the following article, an attempt has been made to conceptualise the complex picture of modern-day education, the global politics that decides if it is a right or a commodity and its relational dynamics with the individual in the society—all this through the perspective of “alienation.” This article tries to propose if education is reproducing detachment of the individual from their inherent consciousness by making their relationship with education as that of between an alienated labourer and their labour in a capitalist society.

Beyond Plastic Identifications

Due to centralised and infl exible infrastructures of state care involving upper-level bureaucratic decision-making and heavy reliance on documentary modalities, even the radically decentralised states such as Kerala are underperforming in their welfare responsibilities. A greater role for local governments needs to be re-envisioned.

Labour Agency and Global Production Networks in India

Recognising an increasing interface of the domestic labour—informal as well as unorganised—with the global production networks, this article engages with two specific research concerns. One is the relevance of traditional trade unions, and the other is the role of the new, even as both labour standards and rights confront the challenges of capital-favouring new labour legislations. The systemic exclusion of the lower-tier workers, despite their globality, reinforces and justifies informality and precarity in the labour process.

Wage Suppression and Wage-rentierism

The surplus value created by non-supervisory workers is typically understood as captured by firm owners and shareholders (that is, as capital income). The surplus value created by non-supervisory workers is captured largely in the form of compensation for high-level executives, and that this capture explains a greater share of wealth inequality than increases in capital’s share of income.

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