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Proper Understanding of COVID-19 Threat for Balanced Policy Response
17 May 2020, by Bharat DograThe COVID-19 crisis has appeared this year as one of the great disruptors of our times. To minimize distress and formulate the best policy it is important to have a proper understanding of the threat. This paper is written in six parts with the (...) -
They are going to the country where their country is lost - Economic crisis of migrant workers after returning home: A study of gold makers of Ahmedabad
17 May 2020Migrant workers are backbone of the society in developing countries. They have been jobless from the first day of nationwide lockdown for out breaking coronavirus disease pandemic. For starting the third stage of lockdown they have began to come back to own houses by their continuous efforts and assistance of government also. We have emphasised the misery condition of the migrant workers who were engaged in jewellery making in Ahmedabad and Surat cities of Gujarat state for a long year. After reaching to native village they are also in poor economic condition being jobless. As the lockdown is going on still now all the economic activities are stand still, they are not getting any job at this time. They are fighting against both survival of life and Covid -19 pandemic. Despite of government assistance they are unable to maintain their families adequately. This paper aims to understand the socio-economic conditions that ensure the standard of living of gold making ornaments workers who have recently returned home.
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Payment of wages and retrenchment in times of Covid19: Will State directives protect workers? | Kingshuk Sarkar
17 May 2020by Kingshuk Sarkar*
State has issued direction to employers to pay wages and salaries and not to retrench workers during the period of lockdown in the present covid-19 pandemic. Still, there are many instances where wages and salaries are not (...) -
A good crisis and exemption from labour laws: Miseries of Indian working class | Kingshuk Sarkar
17 May 2020by Kingshuk Sarkar*
States are providing industries exemptions from the application of labour laws and also extending the period of working hours. The apparent reason is that this will boost investment and employment. Are there any credible (...) -
Deconstructing Performativity, Power and Populism amid COVID-19
17 May 2020by Zahoor Ahmad Dar and Debdutta Chakraborty
Keywords: Power, Populism, COVID-19, Public Sphere, Politics of stupidity, Alternative Communities.
A global crisis in the face of a pandemic has engulfed the world. The systemic structures of the (...) -
Corona Pandemic: Time for politicisation of labour consciousness
17 May 2020by Prem Singh
The country is one and a half months into the lockdown but the plight of the toiling labourers at the country-wide level continues unabated. Every day huge crowds of workers suffer from hunger, insult and alienation/ignorance in (...) -
Our immunity is innate
17 May 2020, by Suhas BorkerYou dare not make us the nowhere people You dare not stop us from reaching our hearths We are the harvests and the grains and all the food We are the furnaces and the smelters and all the steel We are the mills and the looms and all the fibre We (...) -
The Return of ‘State Socialism’ in the Post-COVID-19
17 May 2020by Badre Alam Khan & Sanjay Kumar
‘[The] Virus is a product of nature; the crisis is a product of neo-liberalism’ [(Salas and Silverman, 2020); Cited by Vijay Prasad, EPW, March 2020].
The Covid-19 lockdown has not posed serious challenges in (...) -
Time To Rethink Universal Health care
17 May 2020by Shubham Kumar
The outbreak of COVID-19 is arguably the biggest threat mankind has faced since World War II. The economic consequences of the pandemic may even outweigh the crises triggered by the Great Depression. It has been projected that (...) -
Debate on Marx’s law of falling rate of profit, and value-price conversion
16 May 2020, by Anil RajimwaleReview Article
Which Way Lies the Future? KK Theckedath, Ma-Le Prakashana, Bengaluru, 2017. Price Rs 60/-
Publication of Volume III of Capital by Karl Marx began series of controversies on value/price relationship. Bourgeois and even some (...)
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