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What's the motive?

Twice shy?

Unions greet labour ministry's plans sceptically

Draft national policy for farmers is a good begining

Draft national policy on farmers focusses, not farming

What ails employment guarantee

implementing the rural employment guarantee scheme

In 2 years, 80% cashew producing units closed in Kollam

Huge operational costs and unfriendly government policies led to the closure of the units; it also left 0.35 million people jobless, mostly women&…

Why factory jobs for Ethiopian women haven’t translated into greater participation in politics

Income and job status have less of an impact on women in authoritarian contexts than in advanced democracies

Look back at the decade: Unemployment

Outtake from the second decade of the new millemium: India desperately needs to avail jobs for its ever increasing youth population

Evolution of work

The history of the working class and how working people gained and lost privileges through the ages

Generational spasm

To address the growing unrest across the world, we need to effectively utilise the demographic dividend

Job chances decline for factory workers

With technology advancing at a tremendous pace, companies are retrenching unskilled employees. The effect is being felt most in Europe

In rural West Bengal, debts mount and socioeconomic fabric collapses in absence of MGNREGS

Local economy hangs by a thread as residents desperately demand revival of the rural employment scheme

Jharkhand proposes MGNREGA worker unions

Work demand under the rural employment programme is decreasing in the state

Monsoon deficit spikes rural job demand under MGNREGS

Job demands in some states higher than recorded in COVID-19 pandemic

As told to Parliament (December 5, 2023): 2,216 million persondays under MGNREGS generated this year

All that was discussed in the House through the day

As told to Parliament (September 14, 2020): Some 10.4 million jobless migrant workers returned home post-lockdown

All that was discussed in the House through the day

Why MGNREGS workers sought police complaints against the PM

Non-payment of dues, insufficient funds cause for concern

Vulnerable employment will continue to affect 72% of workers in South Asia: ILO

India is faced with the dual problem of informal and vulnerable employment

Faulty policies

Dam(n) the rivers

Interlink rivers and get delinked from true water management

Founded on piracy

The story of early US industrialisation

Kalam's kaleidoscpoe

Intellectualising poverty

No grey

Handloom is haute

A void that cannot be filled: SEWA founder Ela Bhatt dies in Ahmedabad

Ela Bhatt founded SEWA in 1972, which has since blazed a trail in empowering women in various ways