India’s labour question is also a social question: inequalizing growth and increasing social equality under neoliberal economic regimes

• Published in: Journal of social and economic development Vol. 19; no. 2; pp. 263 - 282
• Main Author: Kannan, K. P.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New Delhi Springer India 01.10.2017; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Boats; Capitalism; Developing countries; Economic development; Economic Growth; Economic Policy; Economic reform; Economic Sociology; Economics; Economics and Finance; Equality; Inequality; LDCs; Muslims; Neoliberalism; Organizational Studies; Per capita; Poverty; Purchasing power parity; Research Paper; Social inequality; Social Policy; Social structure; India; Social inequality; Informal employment; Neoliberal economic reform; Poverty and vulnerability

The Indian growth story since its adoption of neoliberal economic reforms in 1991 is indeed a celebrated one especially by the increasingly powerful corporate capitalist lobby and their supporters within India as well as abroad. In fact the high growth performance started from the mid-eighties with...