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This volume explores the concept of deindustrialization in post-reform India. It combines macro studies of the Indian political economy with the micro analysis of economic restructuring, growth and precarity in a 'flat world' of digital technology, globalization, and valorization of labour at the lowest cost.
List of contents
Introduction 1. The role of the state in industrial promotion and its implications for industrial geography: a 20th-century history of Bangalore
2. Firm size and employment growth in India's manufacturing sector in the 21st century
3. The Interplay of Labour Law reform and political ideologies and impact on industrialization: A study from India
4. Industrial Impasse in West Bengal: Towards an Explanation
5. Industrialisation and Primitive Accumulation by Exploitation of Adivasi Migrant Labour in Gujarat
6. The Twin Realities of Indian Platform and Industrial Capitalism: A Study of Migrant Workers in the National Capital Region (NCR)
7. Deindustrialisation in the Global South: A Case Study of the Software Service Sector and its Workers in Thiruvananthapuram City, India
8. The story of Bata in Batanagar: From Labour welfarism to Precarity
9. Impacts of the digital platform ecosystem on marginalized handicraft microentrepreneurs in India
10. Economic Resilience and Women's Empowerment in India: A Post-Polanyian Perspective.
Conclusion.
About the author
Indranil Chakraborty is a faculty member at the Lawrence Kinlin School of Business, Fanshawe College in Canada, and serves as a research associate with "Deindustrialization and the Politics of our Time" (DEPOT) at Concordia University. Previously, he was a journalist for The Financial Express and The Indian Express. He earned a PhD in Information and Media Studies from Western University and held a Horizon postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of History at Concordia University. His interdisciplinary research investigates the intersection of Political Economy, Information, and Media.
Steven High is professor of history at Concordia University in Montreal. He has published a number of books and articles in deindustrialization studies. He is currently principal investigator of the major transnational research project "Deindustrialization and the Politics of our Time" (DEPOT) which is examining the political ramifications of industrial closures in North America and Europe with points of comparison in other parts of the world. This volume is an example of this effort to globalize this field of research.
