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Ph D in
Economics,
Jawaharlal Nehru
University, New
Delhi (Centre
for Development
Studies,
Thiruvananthapuram).
Work
Experience:
August
2001-December
2002 - Research
Fellow, Indian
Institute of
Information
Technology,
Bangalore
January – April
2004 - Charles
Wallace Visiting
Fellow, School
of Oriental and
African Studies,
London.
Served as
Consultant to
the National
Commission for
Enterprises in
the Unorganised
Sector (NCEUS)
and the ILO, N.
Delhi.
Areas of
Research:
While my
research
concerns fall
broadly in the
realm of
political and
social economy,
specifically I
work on
industrialisation
processes, with
emphasis on
organisational
forms, new
technologies,
labour processes
and markets, as
they are
mediated by
other social
institutions.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
With Saith. A
and Gayathri. V
(eds.)
ICTs and Indian
Social
Development:
Diffusion,
Governance,
Poverty,
London, New
Delhi, Sage
2008.
With Saith. A
(eds.)
ICTs and Indian
Economic
Development:
Economy, Work,
Regulation,
London, New
Delhi, Sage
2005.
Labour in the
New Economy: The
Case of the
Indian Software
Labour Market,
with S.
Rothboeck and
Gayathri.V,
(2001),
International
Labour
Organization (ILO):
New Delhi.
Select
Publications:
Limits and
Possibilities of
Middle Class
Associations as
Urban Collective
Actors, with
Lalitha Kamath,
Economic and
Political Weekly,
Vol
XLIV:26-27, June
27, (2009), pp:
368-376.
Regional Labour
Markets and
Industrial
Development:
Exploratory
Insights from a
India-China
Comparison,
in Ohara.M and
Y.Asuyama
(Eds). Comparing
Development
Trajectories of
the Chinese and
Indian Textile
Industry -
Structure,
Regional
Linkage, and
Labor,
Institute of
Developing
Economies,
Joint
Research Program
Series No.150.
Chiba: IDE-JETRO.
Tokyo
Can Cluster
Development
Programmes
ensure Decent
Work? Evidence
from Indian MSE
Clusters in
Global Value
Chains,
Indian Journal
of Labour
Economics,
(2008), Vol. 51.
Constructing
Work and
Identity in the
Indian
outsourced ITeS
sector
in Saith. A, M.
Vijayabaskar and
V. Gayathri
(eds.)
ICTs and Indian
Development:
Governance,
Diffusion,
Poverty,
London, New
Delhi, Sage
2008.
Many Messages of
Sivaji,
With A.K.J.
Wyatt,
Economic and
Political Weekly,
42/44:29-32
(2007).
Labour under
Flexible
Accumulation:
Case of Tiruppur
Knitwear Cluster,
in Das. K (ed.)
(2005),
Industrial
Clusters: Cases
and Perspectives,
(Aldershot:Ashgate).
Human
Development in
Tamil Nadu:
Examining
Linkages,
with Padmini
Swaminathan,
Anandhi.S and
Gayatri
Balagopal,
Economic and
Political Weekly,
(34/8:
797-802),
February 21,
2004.
Understanding
Growth Dynamism
and its
Constraints in
High-Technology
Clusters in
Developing
Countries: A
Study of
Bangalore,
Southern India,
with
Krishnaswamy G,
in Mani S and H
Romijn (eds.),
Innovation,
Learning and
Technological
Dynamism of
Developing
Countries,
Tokyo: United
Nations
University
Press, 2004.
ICTs and Indian
Development:
Processes,
Policies,
Prognoses,
with Gayathri V,
Economic and
Political Weekly,
(2003), Vol: 38,
No. 24, pp:
2360-2362.
Dimensions of
Children's Work
in the Cotton
Knitwear
Industry in
Tiruppur,
Indian Journal
of Labour
Economics,
(2002), Vol. 45,
No. 3, pp.
561-76.
Labour Markets
in the New
Economy: The
case of Indian
Software
Industry,
with Rothboeck
S. and Gayathri
V., The
Indian Journal
of Labour
Economics,
(Jan-March
2001), Vol. 44,
No. 1, pp.
39-54.
A Curmudgeon's
Guide to
Economic Reforms
in India,
with Mani S,
(1998),
Economic and
Political Weekly,
Vol: XXXIII, 51,
pp. 3257-3272.
Select
Newspaper
Articles:
China now
targets rural
infrastructure,
Financial
Express,
18/3/2009
Political
prospects of
unjust growth
limited,
Financial
Express,
2/6/2008
Tyranny of
models serves no
useful purpose,
Financial
Express,
16/4/2007
Politics for
Arts’ Sake, New
Sunday Express,
14/5/2006.
Impact of State
Polls on the
National Polity,
Economic Times,
16/5/2006.
Research and
Teaching
Interests
-
Globalisation
and Labour
Markets
-
Political
Economy of Urban
Governance
Processes
-
Socio-economics
of small firm
based
Industrialisation
and Regional
Development.
-
Labour Processes
in the Informal
Manufacturing
and Service
Sectors.
-
Dynamics of
Technological
Change.
I teach a 6
lecture module
on ‘Political
Economy of
Labour,
Technology and
Development’ for
the Ph.D Course
Work at MIDS,
Chennai.
Current Work
At present, I am
in different
stages of my
fieldwork and
data analyses
for two ongoing
studies. The
first one titled
Transforming
livelihoods:
work, migration
and poverty in
the Tiruppur
garment cluster,
India,
and funded by
the
Economic and
Social Research
Council (ESRC),
UK looks at how
globalization
impacts
livelihoods of
workers in a
region that has
been plugged
into global
production
networks for
more than two
decades. The
other study,
The Politics of
SEZs in India,
coordinated by
the
Centre de
Sciences
Humaines (CSH),
N. Delhi looks
at how regional
political
economy shapes
the mode and
process of
implementation
and governance
of a common
central policy
of SEZ
promotion.
In
addition, along
with my
colleague Dr.
Karen Coelho and
Dr. Lalitha
Kamath, an
independent
researcher based
in Bangalore, I
am organizing a
national
workshop,
Opening Up or
Ushering In:
Interrogating
Discourses of
Public
Consultation and
Citizen
Participation
(PC and CP) in
Urban Governance"
to be held in
Puducheri on
25-26 of July,
2009. |
