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In economics, an oligopoly is defined as a situation where a limited number of competitors control the market for a product or service. Based on this definition, the food delivery platform sector in India can be defined in market terms as an oligopoly as two companies, Swiggy and Zomato, exercise dominant market control. According to the National Restaurant Association on India (NRAI) , the two companies between each other controlled 95% of the Indian market. Further, Swiggy controlled 70% of the South Indian market for food delivery, while Zomato controlled 70% of the North Indian market.

This guide draws its findings from a joint study conducted by the Center For Labour Studies (CLS) and IT for Change on algorithmic management of labour.

India has emerged as one of the world’s largest producers and exporters of farmed shrimp, supplying primarily to markets in the United States, Europe, and East Asia. While recent investigations and advocacy have focused on labour conditions in shrimp processing plants, the conditions of workers at the farm level, which is one of the initial tiers of the supply chain, remain largely invisible. This study seeks to fulfil this critical gap. Shrimp aquaculture in Gujarat, particularly in Surat district, has expanded rapidly over the last two decades, integrating coastal farms into global supply chains while relying heavily on seasonal migrant labour.

This field study seeks to make an incremental, but important, contribution to the existing body of knowledge on how algorithmic management in India’s burgeoning platform economy affects worker agency, autonomy, and rights at work.

A qualitative study on caste, precarity, and invisibility in urban sanitation work, highlighting systemic gaps in labour rights, wages, and social security.

This curriculum will be useful for voluntary and government organizations working in indigenous and tribal communities as well.

The rapid expansion of algorithmic management in the workplace aligns with capital’s imperative to enhance productivity and profit through the close monitoring of labor. However, contemporary algorithmic management is reshaping power asymmetries between labor and capital in new ways. This report by Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung (RLS) and the Fair, Green, Global Alliance (FGG) examines how algorithms are transforming the material conditions of work on a daily basis, often resulting in unpredictable, imprecise, and ultimately precarious outcomes for workers that vary across platforms. Focusing on the ride-hailing, food delivery, urban services, and warehouse sectors, the analysis aims to uncover the logic driving algorithmic decisions in different industries and the interests they serve.

New Report by Centre for Labour Research and Action (CLRA)

In this book, we explore food and eating habits, preservation and cultivation and the politics behind culinary choices.

The history of clothes is also a history of social norms. The key to understanding the principles and practices of society and its structure is hidden away in the folds of our attire. And then, rummaging through the history of clothes leads us to diverse stories about the export and import of garments, the process and technology of weaving, the work of labourers, and changing fashions. So, clothes nudge us in the direction of economic history as well.

We will read the history of sports in this book, and, through it, try to understand various aspects of Indian society.

The Report discusses and draws attention to major trends in climate impacts in different parts of the country and in different socio-economic spheres, and collates possible well-round multi-dimensional Adaptation measures.

The study examines diverse perspectives and approaches to Just Transition, span- ning from the status-quoist to transformative paradigms. It provides an analysis of the features characterising the garment value chain and the garment sector in India, spot- lighting gaps and challenges related to decent work deficits, occupational health and hazards, environmental impacts stemming from the sector, and reliance on cheap labour.

This book tries to answer many questions surrounding the question of war. Why we still go to war, how the natural world affects war, how can a war in one location change the way of life in a distant place, and what it means to wage war for one’s rights.

This book is the first in the second set of history books for children produced by the Institute of Development Studies Kolkata.