Category: Lede

  • Working in a Sweltering Planet

    The increased price of food and water due to climate induced scarcity is pushing large section of working people to malnutrition and climate-related illnesses.

  • A glamorous job with abysmal workplace reality: A story of the Airline Industry

    The airline industry is pivoted on two fundamental myths – it is a well-paid white-collar job and it is a glamorous and easy job. In reality, it is difficult manual labour at all possible hours while maintaining a façade of glamour making the work more difficult to perform. Imagine pushing heavy carts on a factory…

  • Why do accidents happen at workplaces?

    Work organization should include mechanisms that prevent accidents. If a certain task or work process is hazardous, employers must act to eliminate or mitigate it.

  • We are in a ‘bad’ jobs crisis

    A recent report of the International Labour Organisation titled – India Employment Report, 2024 has brought the limelight back to the problem of unemployment affecting the country. At the launch of the report, the Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India, stated, “to think that for every social or economic problem there is a…

  • Do you want a Passport to Dreams Abroad?

    Every year 25 lakh Indians migrate abroad, which is the highest annual number of migrants in the world. India also tops the list of remittance recipient countries in the world, with a total of $125 billion sent by Indians living in different parts of the world to their families in India.

  • Corporations understand the might of unions, When will workers?

    What is it that employers in all forms and sizes, from tech giants, to large manufacturing and commercial companies, to government, to small enterprises, shops to a household employing just one domestic worker, fear in common? UNIONS From the Rockefellers to Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos in the world, to the Tatas to Mukesh Ambani…

  • What is stopping beedi workers from migrating to alternative livelihood options?

    Beedi rolling is wage work and wage work can only be sustainably substituted by other forms of wage work. Wage work, howsoever, tedious and dangerous it may be, guarantees a wage, howsoever low it may be, after the work is completed.

  • Are jobs actually disappearing?

    A recent report has revealed that the four Information Technology (IT) giants in India – Infosys, TCS, Wipro and Tech Mahindra – laid off over 67,000 workers last year. The IT industry, which is the third largest employer in India also slowed down on hiring and a decline of over 21 percent in job offers…