Abstract

The class and social structure of developing nations has undergone profound transformation in recent decades as each nation has incorporated into an increasingly integrated global production and financial system. National elites have experienced a new fractionation. Emergent transnationally-oriented elites grounded in globalized circuits of accumulation compete with [...]

A Study of Women’s Labour in the Export-oriented Garment Industry in Turkey

by Ergül Ergün

Abstract:
This study examines the informal work aspects of global restructuring with a focus on relations of gender, solidarity, and conflict in the workplace. Rather than trying to conduct a macro level analysis of restructuring process, the [...]

INVESTIGATION

Street Vedors constitute a vast unorganised sector of the Indian working class. It is also the ‘refuge sector’ for the working class and toiling masses rendered unemployed owing to government’s policies causing de-industrialisation, economic crisis, etc. hence leading to job losses. The vending population also includes a huge mass of [...]

World Institute for Development Economic Research
United Nations University  UNU-WIDER project on The Role of Elites in Economic Development
Working Paper No. 2010/02

Global Capitalism Theory and the Emergence of Transnational Elites

By William I. Robinson* January 2010

Abstract

The class and social structure of developing nations has [...]

This study, from Nagarik Mancha and NESPON, outlines the causes behind the closure of tea gardens in North Bengal, the demand of workers from the ground, the extent of implementation of schemes like NREGA and the role of NGO’s, and the functioning of Operative Management Committees (OMC) which are often glorified [...]

Class is not simply about the life chances of a given individual or a family; it is the prime mover in the constitution of modern society, governing both the distribution of power and the potential for social change. It therefore permeates all aspects of social existence…By focusing on class and class struggle our underlying purpose [...]

 The kind of left-wing politics that arises when men in the private sector are the majority of organized labor and the kind that may arise when women in the public sector are the majority of it cannot be the same. In the core capitalist countries, it is likely to be a Left which has figured [...]

Analysis of Classes in India:

A Preliminary Note on the Industrial Bourgeoisie and Middle Class

Mao’s analysis had identified a tiny proletariat in China, which, according to him, would be the leading force in the revolution. In contemporary India, in sharp contrast to China, the proletariat is significantly larger, not only [...]

The recent revival of industrial growth in India does not seem sustainable as factors that have slowed down industry for long are still at work.

A worker sprays water on fabric during a power cut in a dyeing unit at the SIPCOT Industrial Estate at Perundurai in Coimbatore. Fabric has to [...]

Over the last quarter century, the unionized workforce has changed dramatically, according to a November 2009 report by the Center for Economic and Policy Research, The Changing Face of Labor, 1983-2008 [see www.cepr.net/index.php/publications/reports/changing-face-of-labor].
In 2008, union workers reflected trends in the workforce as a whole toward a greater share of women, Latinos, Asian  Pacific Americans, older, [...]